![]() ![]() Solzhenitsyn's last work to be published in the Soviet Union was Matryona's Place in 1963. ![]() 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. ![]() He pursued writing novels about repression in the Soviet Union and his experiences. As a result of his experience in prison and the camps, he gradually became a philosophically minded Eastern Orthodox Christian.Īs a result of the Khrushchev Thaw, Solzhenitsyn was released and exonerated. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by the SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exile for criticizing Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in a private letter. However, Solzhenitsyn lost his faith in Christianity, became an atheist, and embraced Marxism–Leninism. 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. 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. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer. ![]()
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