Published Date:
04 August 2008
ALEXANDER Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize-winner, has died aged 89, it was reported in Russia last night. Literary sources in Moscow said that he died of a stroke.
He served with the Red Army in the Second World War, but became one of the most prominent dissidents of the Soviet era.
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Last Updated:
03 August 2008 11:36 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
