Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918 – 2008 · Russia · Literature, History
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1970
The Gulag Archipelago broke the Soviet system's moral standing.
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Inherited from1
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821 – 1881 · Literature, Philosophy
The Russian prison novel's moral form is what Solzhenitsyn turns on the Gulag.
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- Svetlana Alexievich
1948 · Literature, History
Testimony assembled into documentary literature descends from The Gulag Archipelago.
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