Alexander Solschenizyn

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Alexander Solschenizyn


Born
in Kislovodsk, Russian Federation
December 11, 1918

Died
August 03, 2008


German profile for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
For more information, see Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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Ein Tag im Leben des Iwan D...

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Der Archipel Gulag

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4.33 avg rating — 34,329 ratings — published 1973 — 258 editions
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Krebsstation

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4.26 avg rating — 17,456 ratings — published 1967 — 249 editions
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Der Archipel Gulag. Folgeba...

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4.35 avg rating — 13,487 ratings — published 1973 — 14 editions
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Im ersten Kreis

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4.26 avg rating — 10,143 ratings — published 1968 — 2 editions
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Der Archipel Gulag II: Illu...

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4.49 avg rating — 3,475 ratings — published 1973 — 118 editions
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Der Archipel Gulag III: Ill...

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4.54 avg rating — 2,581 ratings — published 1973 — 48 editions
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August 1914 (The Red Wheel,...

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3.88 avg rating — 2,761 ratings — published 1963 — 89 editions
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Warnung: D. Toedliche Gefah...

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“The intellectual is not defined by professional pursuit and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interests in and occupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them.”
Alexander Solschenizyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“A Communist system can be recognized by the fact
that it spares the criminals
and criminalizes the political opponent.”
Alexander Solschenizyn

“Why keep talking about all that?

And that is what they usually say today, those who did not themselves suffer, who were themselves the executioners, or who have washed their hands of it, or who put on an innocent expression: Why remember all that? Why rake over old wounds? (Their wounds!!)

Lev Tolstoi had an answer for that - to Birukov: "What do you mean, why remember? If I have had a terrible illness, and I have succeeded in recovering from it and been cleansed of it, I will always remember gladly. The only time I will refuse to remember is when I am still ill and have got worse, and when I wish to deceive myself. If we remember the old and look it straight in the face, then our new and present violence will also disclose itself.”
Alexander Solschenizyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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