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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Born

in Kislovodsk, Russian SFSR

December 10, 1918

Died

August 03, 2008

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction

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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: Александр Иса́евич 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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Average rating: 4.09 · 186,474 ratings · 11,169 reviews · 293 distinct works • Similar authors

	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.97 avg rating — 106,925 ratings — published 1962 — 402 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) 4.32 avg rating — 27,634 ratings — published 1973 — 177 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 Bethell (Translator), David Burg (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 15,541 ratings — published 1967 — 11 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) 4.36 avg rating — 9,288 ratings — published 1973 — 112 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 4.23 avg rating — 7,801 ratings — published 1968 — 34 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 4.50 avg rating — 2,648 ratings — published 1973 — 97 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) 3.93 avg rating — 2,567 ratings — published 1971 — 63 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 4.55 avg rating — 2,035 ratings — published 1973 — 79 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 — 2,224 ratings — published 1963 — 46 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
	In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry Willets (Translator) 4.36 avg rating — 1,328 ratings — published 1968 — 15 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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Series by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Архипелаг Гулаг (3 books)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.42 avg rating — 13,962 ratings

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ (3 books)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.42 avg rating — 13,962 ratings

The Red Wheel (6 books)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴,

何茂正 (Translator)

3.97 avg rating — 2,964 ratings

Cancer Ward (2 books)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

Eugen Uricariu (Translator),

Maria Dinescu (Translator)

4.38 avg rating — 451 ratings

Двести лет вместе (1 book)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

Александр Солженицын

4.18 avg rating — 147 ratings

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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

1353 likes

“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

tags: august-1914, ignorance, prejudice, tolerance

1077 likes

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