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Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn

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A Russian writer who wrote about the cruelty of Soviet prison camps and who spoke against the Soviet government
  • proper noun
  • /sɒlzəˈnitsɪn/
: Solzhenitsyn
  • Have you read Solzhenitsyn's book, The Gulag Archipelago?
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • Solzhenitsyn's critique

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was in the gulag.

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Examples

  • Above all, there is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his circle.

    Academic text (1992)
  • In his monumental work, The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn attributes the monstrous crimes of the Soviet Union to Marxism.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Well, remember what Solzhenitsyn said.

  • "We experience what Solzhenitsyn called a world split apart.

    Academic text (1997)
  • And we see, as Solzhenitsyn presents it, that there are lower degrees of freedom the higher up the hierarchy you go.

  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was in the gulag.

  • As I have already stressed, Solzhenitsyn emphasizes the voluntary character of such self-restraint.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Solzhenitsyn proposes another, more truthful response to the modern experience of homelessness in the world.

    Academic text (1998)
  • In her essays, Pomorska considers the works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Pasternak, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Have you read Solzhenitsyn's book, The Gulag Archipelago?

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Etymology

Solzhenitsyn is a Russian family name that became famous through the writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He showed the truth about the Soviet prison camps called the Gulag, so the name Solzhenitsyn now often makes people think of brave writing against unfair rule.