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![]() ![]() Solzhenitsyn and his wife and children moved to the United States in 1976. In 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his Soviet citizenship, and forcibly flown to Frankfurt. The publication in the West of his other novels and, in particular, of The Gulag Archipelago, brought retaliation from the authorities. Although permitted to publish One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962-which remained his only full-length work to have appeared in his homeland until 1990-Solzhenitsyn was by 1969 expelled from the Writers' Union. ![]() ![]() In February 1945, while he was captain of a reconnaissance battery of the Soviet Army, he was arrested and sentenced to an eight-year term in a labor camp and permanent internal exile, which was cut short by Khrushchev's reforms, allowing him to return from Kazakhstan to Central Russia in 1956. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in 1918. ![]()
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