| − | '''Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn''' (Alexander Solyenitsin) (Russian: Александр Солженицын) (b. 1918–2008), was a Russian novelist and historian. He was born at Kislovodsk on 11 December 1918, in the [[Soviet Union]]. While serving as a Red Army captain during [[World War II]], immediately after the surrender of Germany to Red Army forces, he was sent to prison and labor camps over a private letter to a friend which government censors read, which criticized [[Joseph Stalin]].<ref>https://blog.acton.org/archives/105189-5-facts-about-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn.html</ref> His additional writing won him the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1970 and exile from the Soviet Union (ordered out of the country) in 1974. He returned to [[Russia]] in 1994, after [[communism]] fell there. | + | '''Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn''' (Alexander Solyenitsin) (Russian: Александр Солженицын) (b. 1918–2008), was a Russian novelist and historian. He was born at Kislovodsk on 11 December 1918, in the [[Soviet Union]]. While serving as a Red Army captain during [[World War II]], immediately after the surrender of Germany to Red Army forces, he was sent to prison and labor camps over a private letter to a friend which government censors read, criticizing [[Joseph Stalin]].<ref>https://blog.acton.org/archives/105189-5-facts-about-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn.html</ref> His additional writing won him the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1970 and exile from the Soviet Union (ordered out of the country) in 1974. He returned to [[Russia]] in 1994, after [[communism]] fell there. |