Pagine1918–2008 · Kislovodsk, Russia · also known as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in Soviet labour camps for criticising Stalin in a private letter. His short novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), one ordinary day in a camp, was a sensation, and The Gulag Archipelago (1973) documented the whole prison-camp system. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, was expelled from the USSR in 1974, and returned to Russia twenty years later.
Begin with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in Soviet labour camps for criticising Stalin in a private letter. His short novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), one ordinary day in a camp, was a sensation, and The Gulag Archipelago (1973) documented the whole prison-camp system.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is usually considered Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s best-known work, followed by The Gulag Archipelago, Cancer Ward.
Most readers start with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Both refer to the same writer. Other spellings and names include Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s books are still under copyright, so they are not free to download, but many can be borrowed free from your public library or Open Library — we link to them below.