Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
1918 - 2008

Power of Words
Ivan Denisovich brought the novelist international literary attention. But its publication was an aberration, the result of Khrushchev's short-lived determination to demonstrate that the abuses of the Stalinist era were a thing of the past. A few years later, Solzhenitsyn's decision to have his epic tale of the Soviet forced labor system, The Gulag Archipelago published abroad, in Russian, ultimately led him to be arrested and deported, first to Germany, above, where he met with writer Heinrich Boll and members of the media in 1974.

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