Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Born

in Kislovodsk, Stavropol Krai, Russian Federation

December 11, 1918

Died

August 03, 2008

Website

http://www.solzhenitsyn.ru/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: Александр Исаевич Солженицын) was a Soviet and Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system—particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works.

Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.

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Alexander Solzenitsyn (English, alternate)
Αλεξάντρ Σολζενίτσιν (Greek) ...more

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	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts (Translation) 3.95 avg rating — 81,990 ratings — published 1962 — 306 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Edward E. Ericson Jr. (Introduction) 4.21 avg rating — 15,895 ratings — published 1973 — 126 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nicholas William Bethell (Translator) , David Burg (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 12,299 ratings — published 1968 — 98 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 6,857 ratings — published 1968 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney (Translator) , Georgi Plekhanov (Quoted) 4.30 avg rating — 5,622 ratings — published 1973 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 2,087 ratings — published 1971 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV 4.44 avg rating — 1,453 ratings — published 1973 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Matryona's House And Other Stories 3.90 avg rating — 1,341 ratings — published 1963 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII 4.50 avg rating — 1,219 ratings — published 1978 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Paul W. Blackstock (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 427 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (4 books)
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Архипелаг ГУЛАГ (3 books)
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The Red Wheel (3 books)
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Cancer Ward (2 books)
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Красное колесо (1 book)
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Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil

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“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

tags: hunger

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“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: cruelty, impact

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