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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Russia
11 December 1918 โ
3 August 2008 (89 years old)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a monumental Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose epic exposรฉ of the Soviet forced-labor camp system, The Gulag Archipelago, shattered Western illusions regarding totalitarian communism and altered the moral course of twentieth-century history. Awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, he survived eight years in the Gulag and internal exile before being stripped of his Soviet citizenship and expelled in 1974.
