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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918 - 2008

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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies. Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is the 110th most popular writer (down from 90th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Russia (down from 28th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Writer.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is most famous for being a Russian writer and historian who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was born in 1918 and was imprisoned in 1945 for criticizing Stalin. He was released in 1956 and exiled to the West, where he wrote his most famous work, "The Gulag Archipelago."

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Among writers, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ranks 110 out of 7,302. Before him are Arthur Rimbaud, François Rabelais, Jack London, Knut Hamsun, W. Somerset Maugham, and Stephen King. After him are Marquis de Sade, José Saramago, Václav Havel, Anatole France, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and André Gide.

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Among people born in 1918, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ranks 5. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Ingmar Bergman, and Gamal Abdel Nasser. After him are Anwar Sadat, Richard Feynman, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, Rita Hayworth, and Gertrude B. Elion. Among people deceased in 2008, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ranks 1. After him are Paul Newman, Yves Saint Laurent, Suharto, Bobby Fischer, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Edmund Hillary, Charlton Heston, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel P. Huntington, Willis Lamb, and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ranks 31 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuri Andropov (1914), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Isaac Asimov (1920), and Vasily Zaitsev (1915). After him are Alexander III of Russia (1845), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), David Hilbert (1862), Yul Brynner (1920), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), and Valentina Tereshkova (1937).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ranks 8. Before him are Leo Tolstoy (1828), Anton Chekhov (1860), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), and Isaac Asimov (1920). After him are Boris Pasternak (1890), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), and Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926).

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