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was a Russian writer, noted for exploring issues of political ideology in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Indiana joins the Union as the 19th state.
Edward VIII, king of Great Britain and Ireland for 325 days, becomes the first English monarch to abdicate the throne voluntarily.
Two days after Congress passed a declaration of war against Japan, Germany and Italy declare war against the United States.
The United Nations establishes the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to provide relief and support to children living in countries devastated by war.
China formally joins the World Trade Organization, signalling its integration into the world economy.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer, noted for exploring issues of political ideology in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). In 1970 Solzhenitsyn received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Solzhenitsyn was born on December 11, 1918, in Russia and educated at Rostov University. He served in the Soviet army from 1941 to 1945, but in 1945 he was sentenced to eight years in a labor camp for remarks disrespectful to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. After an additional three years in exile in central Asia, Solzhenitsyn was officially rehabilitated in 1957 as the result of a de-Stalinization campaign undertaken by Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev. The harrowing struggle for survival of prisoners in Soviet labor camps formed the background for Solzhenitsyn's first novel Odin den Ivana Denisovich. It was published in Novy Mir (New World) and praised by the newspaper Pravda, the official voice of the Soviet Communist Party. The novel established Solzhenitsyn's name overnight. Two short stories appeared in book form as Dva rasskaza (1963; We Never Make Mistakes, 1963) and Dlia pol'zy dela (1963; For the Good of the Cause, 1964). In the mid-1960s, after the fall of Khrushchev, the Soviet government again began to crack down on dissident artists and writers, and after January 1966 none of Solzhenitsyn's works were officially published in the Soviet Union. However, copies circulated unofficially of the novels The First Circle, an account of captive scientists in a Stalinist research center; and Cancer Ward, an unsparing description of the hospital experiences of two cancer patients, which served as a metaphor for totalitarianism. Both novels were secretly read by Soviet intellectuals, smuggled out of the country, and in 1968 published abroad. He received the Nobel Prize but did not attend the award ceremony, reportedly because he feared he would not be allowed to return to his native country afterward. He died on August 3, 2008, in Moscow, Russia.
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