solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn was an icon of freedom to the Western world, but he did not return the esteem it heaped on him.

Solzhenitsyn, who in the West was considered its paramount flower, was as rude about it as he was about almost everything else.

Around the same time, I began to understand that Solzhenitsyn represents the nationalistic wing of the Soviet dissident movement.

Was Solzhenitsyn right in his diagnosis of the Russian intelligentsia, that it amounted to no more than people with diplomas and good jobs?

For a time, the Soviet government tolerated Solzhenitsyn.

It was always Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's ambition to be a writer.

THEY did not like each other much, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Russia's liberal intelligentsia.

The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Solzhenitsyn's two most famous novels had exposed the reality of the Soviet system.

Solzhenitsyn's writing has a strong tendency to religious consciousness and eschatology.

For most of his adult life in the Soviet Union, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was persecuted.

China has its bold thinkers, but in its present mood it is hard to imagine one of them galvanising an entire class the way Solzhenitsyn did.

Though supporters in the West lumped Mr Solzhenitsyn with the rest of the intelligentsia, he stood monumentally alone.

In 1970 Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel prize for literature, but he wasn't permitted to leave the country to accept it.

Under Putin, the nation was rediscovering what it was to be Russian, Solzhenitsyn thought.

Russian liberals sneered at Solzhenitsyn, though none managed to offer anything comparable to his work.

With The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn had become too great for the Soviet government.

Solzhenitsyn was certainly not the first Russian intellectual to criticise the intelligentsia.

The creation of Soviet man was the horror Mr Solzhenitsyn chiefly wished to reverse.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn said that he learned to pray in a Siberian concentration camp because he had no other hope.

"President Dmitry Medvedev expressed his condolences to Solzhenitsyn's family, " a Kremlin spokesman said.

A large portrait of Solzhenitsyn and a Russian flag completed the backdrop.

Shortly before the war's end, Solzhenitsyn was arrested and sentenced to eight years in the labour camps.

In between he denounced two of the country's greatest writers, Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

For a long time, Solzhenitsyn was mainly and only the author of The Archipelago for me.

Mr Solzhenitsyn was a loyal communist in his youth.

Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn and others have cited figures in the tens of millions of innocent victims.

Often the characters in Mr Solzhenitsyn's books were one-dimensional, the tone sardonic, the detail turgid.

Solzhenitsyn studied physics and mathematics at Rostov University before becoming a Soviet army officer after Hitler's invasion in 1941.

The second part mainly narrated the Solzhenitsyn's viewpoint of description and thought about the human nature wicked.

To Solzhenitsyn, Russia meant the old Russia of the 19th century, a nostalgic, spiritual Russia of the soul.

When Solzhenitsyn wrote in this way, few dared to argue publicly with the great Russian writer-in-exile.

The patrician in Solzhenitsyn hated this lack of deference in the West. That is one respect in which the great man was wrong.

Stepan Solzhenitsyn said his father had died of heart failure at his home, but declined further comment.

For me Solzhenitsyn began from the kitchen radio set.

But, in Vaduz, Solzhenitsyn, a principled conservative, could not join in the West's euphoria.

Solzhenitsyn, as athletic as Albert Einstenin, and nothing like Robert Redford in any category--but you'll take him anyway.

Eight hectic months in 1989 turned the winter so starkly described by Solzhenitsyn into spring.

Thus began a strange new life for Solzhenitsyn.

At that time Solzhenitsyn and a lot of the people of the Soviet Union are the victims of Stalin's rule totalitarian.

"One True Sentence is Heavier than the Whole World" --Solzhenitsyn's Destiny and his Literary Characteristics

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author and dissident, died on August 3rd, aged 89