Solzhenitsyn is dead
by sernabad
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of several explosive books exposing the Soviet system of repression, died in Moscow on Sunday, August 3.
Solzhenitsyn went from being an unknown high school science teacher to winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1972) in eight short years, beginning with the 1962 publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In 1974, the USSR had enough when The Gulag Archipelago was published and they expelled Solzhenitsyn from his native land. The author and his family lived in relative seclusion in Cavendish, Vermont until 1994 when he returned to Russia.
Solzehnitsyn would have been 90 in December.
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