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During the Czarist Reign in Russia the country was known as the "Sleeping Bear of Europe". The name came from the fact that they could have been a great World power but due to poverty and other economic factors within the country could not. Unlike some other great World powers, literature is a highly political issue. During the Soviet Regime there was a height of literary persecution. Up until the mid-nineteen hundreds, most Russian literature that impacted society came from within the country itself. After the persecution started it was more common to come across such literature outside the country.
Alexander was born in Southern Russia on December 11, 1918. He is a Nobel Prize winner for Literature. He won the award in 1970 but did not claim his award until after 1974 when he was exiled from Russia and the Soviet Union. Alexander received his mathematics degree in the 1940's and then became a part of the Red Army. In 1945, he wrote his friend a letter blaming "the mustached one" for the defeats of the army. The government consequently took the letter and he was thrown in concentration camps. Alexander was sentenced to 8 years and released on the day Joseph Stalin ("The mustached one") died. During his stay in the camps Alexander was diagnosed with cancer and began his writing career. The prison camps provided the research and materials for his future writings. In 1962 after his release, Solzhenitsyn published One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in Russian. The book described the life of a prison inmate and one solitary day in the Siberian Camps. It was an instant success. He wrote two more books in 1968 while abroad: The First Circle and the Cancer Ward. Solzhenitsyn continually criticized the government and consequently the government banned his published works. However this did not stop Alexander from writing but he continued to be a success both abroad and underground in Russia. The Soviet Union finally charged him with treason and exiled Alexander in 1974 when the first parts of this "The Gulag Archipelago" was released in Paris. He moved to Switzerland and finally claimed his Nobel Prize, and moved on to settle here in the United States. Up until the collapse of the Soviet Union his works were banned, but in 1989 the Soviet government rescinded the ban and allowed the great works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn to be published on the open market. The finally victory came in 1991 when the Soviet government lifted all treason charges right before it dissolved. Go To Page: 1 2
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