This is a story about the power of the written word. in 1945, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years in the labor camps for criticizing Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in letters to a friend; 17 years later, he turned his experience into
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
, the first literary work to describe the
brutalities
of prison under Stalin. It catapulted Solzhenitsyn to fame, but after the praise came persecution.
Solzhenitsyn's books were banned and
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surveillance
intensified
. Yet still he kept writing, secretly sending novels abroad....
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