Solzhenitsyn's Writings

• Date: 1951 - 1975

• Location: Russia & Central Asia

• Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion

• Medium: Literature

• Artist/Author/Producer: Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr Isayevich (1916- )

• Confronting Bodies: The Soviet State

• Dates of action: 1964+

• Location: Soviet Union

Description of the Art Work

"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", 1962 : novel on the author's days as a prisoner in a labor camp in Soviet Union.

"The First Circle", 1964

"Cancer Ward", 1966

"Stories and Prose Poems", 1971

"Candle in the Wind", 1973

"The Gulag Archipelago", 1974

Description of incident

1964 Soviet Union-Moscow: A decorated officer in World War II, Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned for criticizing Stalinist methods, but was released under Khrushchev, and publication of his labor camp novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" was authorized. After Khrushchev lost power in 1964, Solzhenitsyn's works were barred from publication in the Soviet Union, though published in part in Samizdat a private underground, often typewritten copies, or abroad.

Results of incident

1970 Sweden-Stockholm: Awarded Nobel prize for literature, Solzhenitsyn was forbidden to go to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize on pain of being refused re-entry to his homeland.

1974 Solzhenitsyn still published books abroad, and he was stripped of Soviet citizenship and deported.

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