Writing
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Born December 11, 1918 Died August 3, 2008 (Age 89)Kislovodsk, Terek Oblast, RSFSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]21 Credits
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer. A prominent Soviet dissident, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system. Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained devout members of the Russ…
