HIS 102
Solzhenitsyn Paper Assignment

Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), at the time of his death, was still writing and working to oversee the publication of his collected works, in thirty volumes).  He was clearly one of the most important Russian writers of the twentieth century, and a towering intellectual and cultural figure in Russia; there is no one even close to his stature alive today.  Take a moment and read his Autobiography that he wrote for his award of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Photo from 1994 courtesy Evstafiev.

• typed using a word processor (font size 10 or 12 only)
• one-inch margins
• double-spaced
• page number citations for your quoted evidence
• not to exceed one (1) page
• name, date and HIS 102 at the top left
• must have a brief introduction and conclusion (each not to exceed two sentences)
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