Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author of The Gulag Archipelago, Dies at 89

Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian author of classic pieces as The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Cancer Ward, has died at the age of 89. There have been conflicting reports on the cause of death, with heart failure and stroke being blamed.

The former Soviet artillery officer spent 20 years in exile from his native Russia following the publishing of The Gulag Archipelago as it exposed forced labor camps instituted by the Stalin government.

Solzhenitsyn, having served the Russian military and been decorated for his courage, was sentenced to eight years in the Soviet prison system for criticizing Stalin in 1945. It was that experience that led to his most famous work, The Gulag Archipelago.

In 1994 Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia and moved to a home in the Moscow area. Over the past several years he had suffered from high blood pressure

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