Writers Almanac December 28 ~ Today in 1973, Aleksandr - TopicsExpress



          

Writers Almanac December 28 ~ Today in 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyns mammoth 260,000-word history of the Soviet prison camp system, The Gulag Archipelago, was published in Paris, France. The book is based on Solzhenitsyns experiences in the camps for eight years, as well as 227 other inmates he interviewed. When the book was released in the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested and exiled, but he was also finally able to go to Sweden and collect the Nobel Prize in literature he had been awarded in 1970.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 10:43:15 +0000

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