Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
1918 - 2008
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Literary Giant
Through his harrowing works of fiction and brave personal struggle, novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn revealed the great failings of the Soviet system. Upon the publication of his monumental The Gulag Archipelago, he was sent into exile, first to Germany, above, then to Switzerland and the United States.
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