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Article: Hero of a dark century.(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn )
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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WITH the death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn the world has lost one of the great souls of this or any age. His story was beyond improbable: A former prisoner or "zek" in the vast system of Soviet prisons and labor camps who had also miraculously survived a bout with abdominal cancer, an "underground writer" who never expected a single word of his to be published in his own lifetime, Solzhenitsyn was catapulted to world fame with the November 1962 publication of his novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Nikita Khrushchev, the most "humane" of Soviet leaders, mistook Solzhenitsyn for a Soviet loyalist whose movingly understated account of a single day in the life of a ...
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