Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer. A prominent Soviet dissident, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system. Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, Solzhenitsyn lost his faith in Christianity, became an atheist, and embraced Marxism–Leninism. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exile for criticizing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a private letter. As a result of his experience in prison and the camps, he gradually became a philosophically minded Eastern Orthodox Christian. As a result of the Khrushchev Thaw, Solzhenitsyn was released and exonerated. He pursued writing novels about repression in the Soviet Union and his experiences. He published his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962, with approval from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, which was an account of Stalinist repressions. Solzhenitsyn's last work to be published in the Soviet Union was Matryona's Place in 1963. Following the removal of Khrushchev from power, the Soviet authorities attempted to discourage Solzhenitsyn from continuing to write. He continued to work on further novels and their publication in other countries including Cancer Ward in 1966, In the First Circle in 1968, August 1914 in 1971, and The Gulag Archipelago in 1973, the publication of which outraged the Soviet authorities. In 1974 Solzhenitsyn lost his Soviet citizenship and was flown to West Germany. In 1976, he moved with his family to the United States, where he continued to write. In 1990, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, his citizenship was restored, and four years later he returned to Russia, where he remained until his death in 2008. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature", and The Gulag Archipelago was a highly influential work that "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state", and sold tens of millions of copies. Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk (now in Stavropol Krai, Russia). His father, Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn, was of Russian descent and his mother, Taisiya Zakharovna (née Shcherbak), was of Ukrainian descent. Taisiya's father had risen from humble beginnings to become a wealthy landowner, acquiring a large estate in the Kuban region in the northern foothills of the Caucasus and during World War I, Taisiya had gone to Moscow to study. While there she met and married Isaakiy, a young officer in the Imperial Russian Army of Cossack origin and fellow native of the Caucasus region. The family background of his parents is vividly brought to life in the opening chapters of August 1914, and in the later Red Wheel novels. ... Source: Article "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Popularity: 0.968
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1918-12-11
  • Place of Birth: Kislovodsk, Terek Oblast, RSFSR [now Stavropol Krai, Russia]
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  • Also Known As: Александр Солженицын, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Alexandre Soljenitsyne
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Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Movies

  • 2022
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    La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

    La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

    7.2 2022 HD

    In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first...

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  • 2023
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    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

    9.3 2023 HD

    The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...

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  • 1974
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    Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

    Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

    7.2 1974 HD

    The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in...

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  • 1998
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    The Knot

    The Knot

    6.8 1998 HD

    The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The...

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  • 2015
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    Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

    Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

    6 2015 HD

    40 years of "Apostrophes". Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a...

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  • 2008
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    Solzhenitsyn: Trilogy

    Solzhenitsyn: Trilogy

    1 2008 HD

    Documentary about the life and works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in three parts, made for Russian TV in 2001, 2003, and 2008. The author died while the...

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  • 2008
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree

    1 2008 HD

    The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

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  • 2007
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    Keep Forever

    Keep Forever

    1 2007 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Love-Girl and the Innocent

    The Love-Girl and the Innocent

    5.6 1973 HD

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  • 1992
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    The First Circle

    The First Circle

    4.8 1992 HD

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  • 1970
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    Krebsstation

    Krebsstation

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1973
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    The First Circle

    The First Circle

    1 1973 HD

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  • 2021
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    100 Minutes

    100 Minutes

    7 2021 HD

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  • 1964
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    Case at the Station Krechetovka

    Case at the Station Krechetovka

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1970
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    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    6.8 1970 HD

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  • 1999
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    Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

    Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

    8.5 1999 HD

    Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women...

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    6.25 1970 HD

    The story is set in a relatively comfortable Stalin-era prison in the town of Marfino where a community of prisoners with highly technical skills do...

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  • 1970
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    5.5 1970 HD

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967....

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