Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Writing

Born: 1918-12-11 · Kislovodsk, Terek Oblast, RSFSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]

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 wa…