Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Birthday, Date of Birth

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.

Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, he initially lost his faith in Christianity, became an atheist, and embraced Marxism–Leninism. While serving as a captain in the Red Army during World War II, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exile for calling for the overthrow of the Soviet regime in private correspondence with another field officer. As a result of his experience in prison and the camps, he gradually became a philosophically minded Eastern Orthodox Christian.

As a result of the Khrushchev Thaw, Solzhenitsyn was released and exonerated. He pursued writing novels about repression in the Soviet Union and his experiences. In 1962, he published his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich—an account of Stalinist repressions—with approval from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. His last work to be published in the Soviet Union was Matryona's Place in 1963. Following the removal of Khrushchev from power, the Soviet authorities attempted to discourage Solzhenitsyn from continuing to write. He continued to work on additional novels and their publication in other countries including Cancer Ward in 1966, In the First Circle in 1968, August 1914 in 1971 and The Gulag Archipelago—which outraged the Soviet authorities—in 1973. In 1974, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship and flown to West Germany. He initially moved to Switzerland and then moved to Vermont in the United States with his family in 1976 and continued to write there. His Soviet citizenship was restored in 1990. He returned to Russia four years later and remained there until his death in 2008.

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Birthday, Date of Birth
Wednesday, December 11, 1918
Place of Birth
คีสโลวอดสค์
Age
106
Star Sign

The December 11, 1918 was a Wednesday under the star sign of . It was the 344 day of the year. President of the United States was Woodrow Wilson.

If you were born on this day, you are 106 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 271 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, December 11, 2025, in 93 days. You have lived for 38,988 days, or about 935,718 hours, or about 56,143,105 minutes, or about 3,368,586,300 seconds.

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11th of December 1918 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 11, 1918

TOPICS IN WALL STREET.

Date: 12 December 1918

no owner can be found for Juan Castillano well

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RED FLAG MEETING PLANNED; Police to Act if Demonstration Is Staged in Central Park.

Date: 12 December 1918

W Holly acts to prevent demonstration in Central Park planned by Socialists and anarchists

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BERLIN STILL HIDING TRUTH ABOUT WAR; Remnants of the Old Regime Powerful Enough to Prevent Disclosures.PEOPLE JEST AT EX-PRINCEAllege Sinn Feinere in GermanyHave Asked Him to be King of Ireland.

Date: 12 December 1918

By JULIAN GRANDE. Copyright, 1918, by The New York Times Company. Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Julian GRANDE

Sinn Feiners have asked him to become King of Ireland

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Police Department News.

Date: 12 December 1918

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Latest Shipping News.

Date: 12 December 1918

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FINANCIAL MARKETS; Stocks Irregular, with Gains in the Majority--New Steel Conditions for New Year. Trading Quiet on Paris Bourse.

Date: 12 December 1918

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HEARST'S ORDERS TO HIS EDITORS GO BEFORE SENATORS; Col. House Called a Lobbyist and Gregory and Burleson Assailed as " Crooked." ZIMMERMANN NOTE A 'FAKE' Wires from Viereck and from a Berlin Paper and Messages to Hale.WHY FLAGS WERE PRINTEDBelief That People Opposed War Expressed--Prof. Albert B. HartAffirms His Loyalty. Period of Hearst Messages. Thought Majority Opposed War. Cautions Sent to Publisher. HEARST'S ORDERS BEFORE SENATORS

Date: 11 December 1918

Special to The New York Times

message to Hearst calling Zimmermann note about Mexico a fake

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Date: 11 December 1918

first of wounded from 27th, 30th and 37th Divisions, "New York's Own," arrive in N Y harbor

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DECISIONS AND CALENDARS

Date: 11 December 1918

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Police and Fire News.

Date: 11 December 1918

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