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100	1		_aSolzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008
245	1	0	_aThe Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956. V-VII : an experiment in literary investigation _c/ Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Harry Willets
260			_aNew York _b: Harper & Row _c, c1978
300			_ax, 558 p. _b: ill. _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aSolzhenitsyn served in the Russian army during World War II but was arrested in 1945 for writing a letter criticizing Stalin. He spent the next decade in prisons and labor camps and, later, exile, before being allowed to return to central Russia, where he taught and wrote. In 1970, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1974, he was arrested for treason and exiled following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. He moved to Switzerland and later the U. S. where he continued to write fiction and history. When the Soviet Union collapsed, he returned to his homeland. He died due to a heart ailment on August 3, 2008.
650		4	_aPolitical prisoners _z-Russia
651		4	_aSoviet Union _x--Politics and government
942			_cMO
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