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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Born

in Kislovodsk, Russian soviet federative socialist republic

December 10, 1918

Died

August 03, 2008

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction

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also known as
Alexander Solzenitsyn (English, alternate)
Αλεξάντρ Σολζενίτσιν (Greek)

Works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), of Soviet writer and dissident Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, exposed the brutality of the labor camp system.

This known Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian best helped to make the world aware of the forced Gulag.

Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn fathered of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.

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Average rating: 4.1 · 228,815 ratings · 15,136 reviews · 297 distinct works • Similar authors

	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 128,842 ratings — published 1962 — 32 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) 4.33 avg rating — 36,103 ratings — published 1973 — 80 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) 4.26 avg rating — 17,997 ratings — published 1967 — 13 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 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney (Translator) 4.35 avg rating — 14,711 ratings — published 1973 — 166 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 4.26 avg rating — 10,391 ratings — published 1968	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 4.48 avg rating — 3,648 ratings — published 1973 — 116 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 4.54 avg rating — 2,740 ratings — published 1973 — 105 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) 3.94 avg rating — 2,881 ratings — published 1971 — 121 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 3.88 avg rating — 2,904 ratings — published 1963 — 14 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
	We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Paul W. Blackstock (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 1,100 ratings — published 1963 — 3 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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4.39 avg rating — 21,098 ratings

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ (3 books)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.39 avg rating — 21,098 ratings

Gulag-arkipelagen (1 book)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)

4.35 avg rating — 14,711 ratings

The Red Wheel (7 books)
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Clare Kitson (Translator)

4.00 avg rating — 3,461 ratings

Красное колесо (1 book)
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Александр Солженицын

3.98 avg rating — 3,116 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

1379 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

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January 2022 1st Quarter Classic Long Read

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, 1840, 600 pages

57 votes, 30.0%

Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur): All Volumes by Thomas Malory, 1485, 640 pages

35 votes, 18.4%

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, 1988, 623 pages

26 votes, 13.7%

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, 1993, 1474 pages

24 votes, 12.6%

The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, 1971, 896 pages

20 votes, 10.5%

In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1968, 742 pages

16 votes, 8.4%

Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd, 1987, 912 pages

12 votes, 6.3%

190 total votes

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