Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын) (born December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. He was responsible for thrusting awareness of the Gulag on the non-Soviet world.

Published works

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
• For the Good of the Cause (1964)
• The First Circle (1968)
• The Cancer Ward (1968)
• The Love-Girl and the Innocent (1969)
• August 1914 (1971). The beginning of a history of the birth of the USSR in an historical novel. The novel centers on the disastrous loss in the Battle of Tannenberg (1914) in August, 1914. Other works, similarly titled, follow the story.
• The Gulag Archipelago (three volumes) (1973-78), not a memoir, but a history of the entire process of developing and administering a police state in the Soviet Union.
• Prussian Nights (1974)
• Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, A Letter to the Soviet leaders, Collins: Harvill Press (1974), ISBN 0060139137
• The Oak and the Calf (1975)
• Lenin in Zurich (1976)
• The Mortal Danger: Misconceptions about Soviet Russia and the Threat to America (1980)
• November 1916 (1983)
• Victory Celebration (1983)
• Prisoners (1983)
• Rebuilding Russia (1990)
• March 1917
• April 1917
• The Russian Question (1995)
• Invisible Allies (1997)
• Two Hundred Years Together on Russian-Jewish relations since 1772, aroused ambiguous public response. (http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/7033-1.cfm, http://www.jewishsf.com/bk010831/ip29a.shtml, http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/ChukovskayaSolzhenitsyn.htm)