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Article: Has anyone ever written under more pressure than Solzhenitsyn? "Look after your health, Aleksandr Isayevich," the letters used to say.(The Week)(Brief article)
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- October 5, 2009
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Has anyone ever written under more pressure than Solzhenitsyn? "Look after your health, Aleksandr Isayevich," the letters used to say. "We are all depending on you." It was Solzhenitsyn's burden to speak and report for the entire Russian people, ruled by a crushing Communism. He did his duty with brilliance, extreme courage, and grace. Malcolm Muggeridge called him "the noblest human being alive." The Gulag Archipelago broke the back of Soviet Communism, in a way. ...