Solzhenitsyn

[ sohl-zhuh-neet-sin, sawl-; Russian suhl-zhi-nyee-tsin ]

noun

1. Alexander or A·le·ksandr (I·sa·ye·vich) [al-ig-, zan, -der ee-, sahy, -, uh, -vich, -, zahn, -, uh-lyi-, ksahn, -d, r, ee-, sah, -yi-vyich], 1918–2008, Russian novelist: Nobel Prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94.

Solzhenitsyn

/ ˌsɒlʒəˈnɪtsɪn; səlʒəˈnitsin /

noun

1. SolzhenitsynAlexander Isayevich19182008MRussianWRITING: novelist Alexander Isayevich (alɪkˈsandr iˈsajɪvitʃ). 1918–2008, Russian novelist. His books include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), The First Circle (1968), Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), The Gulag Archipelago (1974), and October 1916 (1985). His works criticize the Soviet regime and he was imprisoned (1945–53) and exiled to Siberia (1953–56). He was deported to the West from the Soviet Union in 1974; all charges against him were dropped in 1991 and he returned to Russia in 1994. Nobel prize for literature 1970

Example Sentences

Reading Bentham was a good warning but Solzhenitsyn was a better friend.

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Solzhenitsyn was my Virgil many a time as I passed through the circles of incarceration.

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In any case, it was Solzhenitsyn who explained this to me and not some sage I met in the prison yard.

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From Gabriel Garcia Marquez to, say, the reaction of many French intellectuals to Solzhenitsyn.

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In this sense, Yang is like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: someone inside the system trying to uncover its darkest secrets.

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Born in 1918, Alexander Solzhenitsyn became known as a writer in the context of the post-Stalin era.

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