- Biography, Politics and government, Russian Authors, Censorship
**The Oak and the Calf**, subtitled *Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union*, is a memoir by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, about his attempts to publish work in his own country.
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- Author
- Александр Солженицын
- First published
- 1975
- Pages
- 603
- Publisher
- Collins/Fontana, Rowohlt Verlag, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English, German, Russian, French
- ISBN
- 9780002721585
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his two best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist. ([Source][1].) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
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