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Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
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On August 3,
2008 Russian
writer
Alexander
Solzhenitsyn,
89, author
of The Gulag
Archipelago
and One Day
In The Life
Of Ivan
Denisovich,
who exposed
prison
system of
Stalin in
his novels
and spent 20
years in
exile, died
near Moscow
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The Nobel
laureate had
suffered
from high
blood
pressure in
recent
years.
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After
returning to
Russia,
Solzhenitsyn
wrote
several
polemics on
Russian
history and
identity.
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Solzhenitsyn
served as a
Soviet
artillery
officer in
World War II
and was
decorated
for his
courage but
in 1945 was
denounced
for
criticising
Stalin in a
letter.
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He was Born
on 11
December
1918
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1945:
sentenced to
eight years
for
anti-Soviet
activities
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1962: One
Day in the
Life of Ivan
Denisovich
published in
Russia
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1970:
Awarded
Nobel Prize
for
Literature
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1974: First
volume of
The Gulag
Archipelago
published
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13 February
1974: Exiled
from his
native
Russia
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