Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 – 2008) was a Russian novelist. He was a prominent Soviet dissident, an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Literature ... becomes the living memory of a nation.

- Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1972

• A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

- The First Circle

Lawrence J Peter