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'''Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn''' (Alexander Solyenitsin) (Russian: Александр Солженицын) (b. 1918 - 2008), was a Russian Soviet novelist and historian. He was born at Kislovodsk on 11th December, 1918, in the [[Soviet Union]]. He was sent to prison and labor camps over a letter that criticized [[Joseph Stalin]].  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.
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'''Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn''' (Alexander Solyenitsin) (Russian: Александр Солженицын) (b. 1918 - 2008), was a Russian novelist and historian. He was born at Kislovodsk on 11th December, 1918, in the [[Soviet Union]]. He was sent to prison and labor camps over a letter that criticized [[Joseph Stalin]].  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.
    
Solzhenitsyn studied science, history, and literature.  He also was a teacher for a short period.  When the [[Nazis]] invaded in 1941, he entered the army.  From his hard work he rose to the rank of captain and won medals twice for his service.   
 
Solzhenitsyn studied science, history, and literature.  He also was a teacher for a short period.  When the [[Nazis]] invaded in 1941, he entered the army.  From his hard work he rose to the rank of captain and won medals twice for his service.   
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