Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In our times there have been many good authors and many excellent authors, but have you ever questioned yourself what have they done for us? Sure Shakespeare was a magnificent writer but how did he improve society as a whole? Picasso was a great painter in many people’s eye but how did Picasso’s cubism form of art affect in any way besides possible good art? Well there is an author by the name of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whom over the course of the last part of the 20th century has contributed much to the world. He helped the Cold War end, he helped the truth about Gulag’s become known and he also helped humanity by giving a message of hope in a time of peril. Here is a small paper I tried to write in order to help the reader understand his significance.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on December 11th, 1918 in Kislovodsk, Russia. He is a Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. He was born the son of a widowed mother. Solzhenitsyn was brought up in the Caucasus region in Russia. His father died while he served in the army. Solzhenitsyn studies mathematics at Rostov State University while also taking classes from the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History. Aleksandr served in the Red Army as an artillery commander in East Prussia, during World War II. During his term there Aleksandr criticized Joseph Stalin to a friend, he was then sentenced to an eight-year term in a Russian Gulag. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn became famous for writing many pieces of literature, the first piece he wrote was a novel named, The First Circle, which was a novel that pertained to his imprisonment at the Russian Gulag. He later wrote, One day in the Life of Ivan Denisouich, in that novel he wrote about his experiences at Ekizbautz, another Russian Gulag where he was transferred. Later in Solzhenitsyn’s life he was diagnosed with cancer at Kol-Terek, the last camp he was confined to for a large part of his life. While at Kol-Terek he wrote a novel titled, The Cancer Ward, which became the basis of a story titles, The Right Hand. Later on in Solzhenitsyn life on of his stories, One Day