Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Introduction

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk Isaevic in 1918. He graduated in mathematics at the University of Rostov on Don. He fought in World War II reaching the rank of captain of artillery. In 1945, an allusion to Stalin contained in a letter he was arrested and sentenced to eight years in the camps. At the end, of the sentence imprisoned for three years.

Released in 1956, rehabilitated and allowed to settle in Ryazan ', where he taught mathematics and began to write (Ericson & Klimoff, pp. 13). Charismatic leader of the Soviet intellectual dissent, Solzhenitsyn soon distinguished himself from the ...