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03/08/2008 Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dies

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at the age of 89

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure near Moscow in 2008 at the age of 89.