Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Dunlop, John, Haugh, Richard, and Klimoff, Alexis, eds., Alexander Solzhenitsyn Critical Essays and Documentary Materials (New York Collier Books, 1975). 

An example of this policy shift can be illustrated by the campaign initiated against Alexander Solzhenitsyn, after his 1967 letter to the Union of Writers asking for the abolition of censorship. In reaction to this letter, attacks against the author began in the press he was subsequently expelled from the Union of Writers in 1969, and finally deprived of Soviet citizenship in 1974. 

Russia s armies suffered nearly 500,000 CW casualties during World War I, a toll that amounted to 62 percent of all chemical casualties suffered by all sides throughout the war. On July 24, 1916, Russian troops used gas offensively for the first time against German troops at Skrobsk, and as related by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the effort had disastrous consequences ... 

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