Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) served as an artillery officer in World War II before being arrested for making critical remarks about Stalin in a private letter. He spent eight years in labor camps and three more in internal exile—experiences that became the raw material for his life's work. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich made him famous overnight; The Gulag Archipelago made him a global symbol of resistance to totalitarianism. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.