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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Born

in Kislovodsk, Russian soviet federative socialist republic

December 10, 1918

Died

August 03, 2008

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction

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also known as
Alexander Solzenitsyn (English, alternate)
Αλεξάντρ Σολζενίτσιν (Greek)

Works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), of Soviet writer and dissident Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, exposed the brutality of the labor camp system.

This known Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian best helped to make the world aware of the forced Gulag.

Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn fathered of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s books

Average rating: 4.1 · 221,060 ratings · 14,304 reviews · 285 distinct works • Similar authors

	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 3.98 avg rating — 124,928 ratings — published 1962 — 497 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Edward E. Ericson Jr. (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 34,641 ratings — published 1973 — 258 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nicholas Bethell (Translator), David Burg (Translator) 4.26 avg rating — 17,563 ratings — published 1967 — 249 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney (Translator) 4.35 avg rating — 13,857 ratings — published 1973 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Circle 4.26 avg rating — 10,194 ratings — published 1968 — 221 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV 4.48 avg rating — 3,506 ratings — published 1973 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII 4.54 avg rating — 2,617 ratings — published 1973 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 2,821 ratings — published 1971 — 122 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Matryona's House and Other Stories 3.88 avg rating — 2,787 ratings — published 1963 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Paul W. Blackstock (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 1,066 ratings — published 1963 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Архипелаг Гулаг (3 books)
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4.40 avg rating — 19,976 ratings

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ (3 books)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.40 avg rating — 19,976 ratings

Gulag-arkipelagen (1 book)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)

4.35 avg rating — 13,853 ratings

The Red Wheel (7 books)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

Clare Kitson (Translator)

3.99 avg rating — 3,361 ratings

Красное колесо (1 book)
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

Александр Солженицын

3.97 avg rating — 3,033 ratings

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Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (?)

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil

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“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

tags: hunger

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“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

tags: august-1914, ignorance, prejudice, tolerance

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Polls

January 2025 New School Classics Poll

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 1980, 552 pages

60 votes, 26.5%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 p, 1952

48 votes, 21.2%

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922, 232 pages

43 votes, 19.0%

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1962, 151 pages

32 votes, 14.2%

On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleža, 1938, 192 pages

20 votes, 8.8%

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati, 1940, 198 pages

12 votes, 5.3%

The Rector's Daughter by F.M. Mayor, 1924, 368 pages

11 votes, 4.9%

226 total votes

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