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

They don’t read like Solzhenitsyn or Koestler, but they wouldn’t be convincing if they did.

From Slate

Former inmates, their relatives and human rights advocates paint a bleak picture of a prison system that descended from the USSR’s gulag, documented by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” and “The Gulag Archipelago.”

From Seattle Times

His career took a dive after he and a friend wrote a letter in 1974 defending Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident writer who had been expelled from the Soviet Union.

From Reuters

His best work, like Gabriel García Márquez’s writing about Latin America in the 1960s and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s about Russia in the 1970s, didn’t just bring a neglected region of the world to light, but gave it complex life.

From New York Times

Asked whether his criticism was unpatriotic, Orlov, citing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago", pointed out that military defeats have played a significant role in driving reform and development Russian history.

From Reuters