Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
By Jim Lynch on Aug 4, 2008 in People
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Nobel prize-winning Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who shone a light on the brutal Soviet Gulag camps, has died at the age of 89, bringing tributes from around the world on Monday.
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Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 after depicting in harrowing detail the Soviet labour camps, where he spent eight years from 1945.
He toiled obsessively to unearth the darkest secrets of Stalinist rule and his work ultimately dealt a crippling blow to the Soviet Union’s authority.
Update: It was the Gulag Archipelago that was the deep read. I read that on my own after being exposed to Solzhenitsyn in high school through One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
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I cannot tell you how sad I am to read of his passing. I read his works when I was a military spouse living in West Germany in the early 1970’s. I remember being awed by the courage it took to write, and get published his great works. All of them. I remember being terrified for him when I heard that he had been taken from his residence, before the Soviets exiled him to the west. Next to the Bible, his writings have influenced me the most. What a loss to the voice of freedom in this world that seems to be clamoring for the very oppression he spent his life writing against.
Anybody considering voting for any liberal/left winger, would benefit greatly from reading any one of this giant’s works.
Rest in Peace, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Ruth Needham | Aug 4, 2008 | Reply