Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in the Caucasus in 1918. Just before the end of World War II, he was arrested by the military police and spent the next eight years in camps. Then condemned to "perpetual exile", he was rehabilitated in 1957. Until 1962, the date of his first publication, he taught mathematics and physics in rural secondary schools. The success that Solzhenitsyn was to experience with his publications, then his Nobel Prize, unleashed a storm of insults and slander in the Soviet press. In 1974, he was arrested and expelled from the USSR. His exile ended in 1994. He died on August 3, 2008 in Moscow.
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