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cnn.com - 8/3/2008
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn is pictured at his home in 2007 with former Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Talking Points Memo — Solzhenitsyn, dead at 89.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, RIP:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian dissident and exposer of communist crimes, has passed away . In books such as The Gulag Archipelago and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , he did more than any other Russian writer to expose the crimes of communism. Solzhenitsyn's opposition to the communist regime was in large part a result of a term that he was forced to serve in in a Gulag slave labor camp for writing a letter critical of Joseph Stalin while serving in the Soviet Army during World War II. Unlike fellow dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov, Solzhenitsyn was a ...
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