# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:54:13.947Z

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name: "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"
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description: "He wrote the book that cracked open the Soviet prison system for the world to see. The Gulag Archipelago sold tens of millions of copies and mounted a head-on challenge to the Soviet state — earning Solzhenitsyn a Nobel Prize, exile, and a place in history as the dissident who refused to look away."
tagline: "Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1918 into a devout Russian Orthodox family, Solzhenitsyn turned atheist young and embraced Marxism–Leninism. Serving as a Red Army captain in World War II, he was arrested by SMERSH in 1944 and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag for criticizing Stalin in private letters. Prison turned him back toward Eastern Orthodox Christianity and gave him the material for a life's work. Released during the Khrushchev Thaw, he published One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962 with Khrushchev's approval, then Cancer Ward, In the First Circle, and August 1914 abroad as the Soviet mood darkened. The Gulag Archipelago appeared in 1973; a year later, authorities stripped his citizenship and deported him to West Germany. He moved through Switzerland to Vermont, returned to Russia in 1994 after his citizenship was restored, and died there in 2008.