Labels:text | human face | man | human beard | screenshot OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - the most celebrated of Soviet Russia's dissident writers - became a symbol of resistance to and endurance of political oppression. The son of Cossack intellectuals, Solzhenitsyn studied first mathematics and then literature. An artillery captain in World War II, he spent 11 years in prisons, labor camps, and exile for criticizing Stalin. Rehabilitated during Nikita Khrushchev's regime, he resumed teaching, began to write, and became well known at home and abroad. After Khrushchev's fall in 1964, Solzhenitsyn opposed the new order. Consequently his work was suppressed in the Soviet Union, and he initially declined to accept his 1970 Nobel prize in Stockholm, fearing that he would not be allowed to return home. Later work was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, smuggled abroad and published, but was seized in the U.S.S.R. and led to arrest, charges of Russian novelist and historian, 1918 - treason, and deportation. He settled first in Zurich and later in the U.S. Under Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost, Solzhenitsyn was once again rehabilitated. His Russian citizenship was restored in 1990. CHRONOLOGY
