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In audio: the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn timeline: Birth: 1918, December 12; Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is born in Kislovodsk, Russia on December 11, 1918, as World War I was ending. His father dies six months before his birth. A student of mathematics: 1937; Now an unpublished and frustrated young author, Solzhenitsyn reluctantly studies Mathematics at Rostov University in Russia. Natalia […]

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author of ‘The Gulag Archipelago,’ dies at 89

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