| In this picture, Russian-born writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn receives an honorary degree at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1978. Solzhenitsyn spent many years in prison and exile within the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for anti-Stalinist and anti-Soviet statements and was deported from the USSR in 1974. In his novels and short stories, Solzhenitsyn exposed the brutal realities of the Soviet prison system and life in the USSR during and after the rule of Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin. |
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