Quote by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.


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Author Bio


  • NameAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • DescriptionRussian writer
  • AliasesAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • BornDecember 11, 1918
  • DiedAugust 3, 2008
  • CountrySoviet Union; Russia
  • ProfessionWriter; Historian; Novelist
  • WorksOne Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich; The First Circle; Cancer Ward; The Gulag Archipelago; Two Hundred Years Together
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Medal "For The Victory Over Germany In The Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Order Of The Patriotic War 2nd Class; Templeton Prize