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    Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in 1918, a year after the Bolsheviks stormed to power throughout Russia. He studied at the University of Rostov and served with distinction in the Russian Army during World War II. In 1945, he was arrested and imprisoned in a labor camp for eight years because he had allegedly made a derogatory remark about Stalin. Released in 1953 after the death of Stalin, he was forced to live in Central Asia, where he remained until Premier Khrushchev’s historic “secret speech” denouncing Stalin in 1956. Rehabilitated in 1957, Solzhenitsyn moved to Ryazin, married a chemistry student, and began to teach mathematics at the local school. In his spare time he started to write. In 1970, Solzhenitsyn received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Four years later the Soviet Union revoked his citizenship, and he was deported. Solzhenitsyn settled in Vermont in 1984, but eventually returned to Russia in 1994, after the collapse of communism. He died in 2008.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    9780451228147
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 04, 2009
    Berkley
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    Introduction by John Bayley
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    9780679444640
    $26.00 US
    Hardcover
    Nov 14, 1995
    Everyman's Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    9780553247770
    $6.99 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Jul 01, 1984
    Bantam Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    9780451228147
    $19.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 04, 2009
    Berkley
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    Introduction by John Bayley
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    9780679444640
    $26.00 US
    Hardcover
    Nov 14, 1995
    Everyman's Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    9780553247770
    $6.99 US
    Mass Market Paperback
    Jul 01, 1984
    Bantam Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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