Monday, August 4, 2008
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 1918-2008
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize winning Soviet dissident, died of heart failure on Sunday. His writings were critical in calling the world's attention to the oppressive Soviet regime. Read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a brilliant novel that exposed the horrific treatment of political prisoners in Stalin's labor camps.
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