Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/12/1918
Day of Death
03/08/2008
(90) years old
Place of Birth
Kislovodsk, Terek Oblast, RSFSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer. A prominent Soviet dissident, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system. Solzhenitsyn wa... Read More