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A Short Biography of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Author Name:

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Born As:

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Other Names:

Born:

11 Dec 1918

Died:

03 Aug 2008




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Novelist and dissident                          
Selected Works:

A Storm in the Mountains
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - 1962; novella
An Incident at Krechetovka Station - 1963; novella
Matryona's Place - 1963; novella
For the Good of the Cause - 1964; novella
The First Circle - 1968; novel
Cancer Ward - 1968; novel
The Love-Girl and the Innocent - 1969; play, aka The Prisoner and the Camp Hooker or The Tenderfoot and the Tart.

Nobel Prize delivered speech - 1970. The speech was delivered to the Swedish Academy in writing and not actually given as a lecture.

August 1914 - 1971. The beginning of a history of the birth of the USSR in an historical novel. The novel centers on the disastrous loss in the Battle of Tannenberg - 1914 in August, 1914, and the ineptitude of the military leadership. Other works, similarly titled, follow the story: see The Red Wheel - overall title.
The Gulag Archipelago - three volumes - 1973–1978, not a memoir, but a history of the entire process of developing and administering a police state in the Soviet Union.
Prussian Nights - Finished in 1951, first published in 1974; poetry
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1974
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, A Letter to the Soviet leaders - 1974
The Oak and the Calf - 1975
Lenin in Zürich - 1976; separate publication of chapters on Lenin, none of them published before this point, from The Red Wheel. They were later incorporated into the 1984 edition of the expanded August, 1914.
Warning to the West - 1976; 5 speeches - translated to English, 3 to the Americans in 1975 and 2 to the British in 1976
Harvard Commencement Address - 1978 link
The Mortal Danger: Misconceptions about Soviet Russia and the Threat to America - 1980
Pluralists - 1983; political pamphlet
November 1916 - 1983; novel in The Red Wheel sequence
Victory Celebration - 1983
Prisoners - 1983

Godlessness, the First Step to the Gulag. Templeton Prize Address, London, May 10 - 1983

August 1914 - 1984; novel, much-expanded edition
Rebuilding Russia - 1990
March 1917 - 1990
April 1917
The Russian Question - 1995
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr - 1997. Invisible Allies
Russia under Avalanche - Россия в обвале,1998; political pamphlet Complete text in Russian
Two Hundred Years Together - 2003 on Russian-Jewish relations since 1772, aroused ambiguous public response.                          
Mother Taisiya Shcherbak
Father Isaakiy Solzhenitsyn