| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Александр Солженицын | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 December 1918 Kislovodsk, Russia |
| Died | 3 August 2008 (aged 89) Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship | Russia |
| Alma mater | Rostov State University |
| Occupation | Military commander |
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: Александр Исаевич Солженицын, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian political dissident and politician, who became the Generalissimo of the Russian Empire from 1960 and 1972. He is most famous for leading the 1959 coup that deposed of the then-incumbent Generalissimo Alexander Rodzianko and his Chancellor, Sergey Taboritsky (who held the real political influence from behind the scenes), who both succeeded Vladimir P. Rennenkampf in the aftermath of the Second World War. Under his Senate, Pavel Milyukov served as the Chancellor of the Russian Empire. Subsequently, the coup resulted in the end of the Sino-Russian conflict, and re-normalization of ties with China. He is also therefore credited with ending the Sino-Russian conflict, and forming a quasi-partnership with China to resist Western influence. At the same time, he also normalized relations with the West, known as the "Solzhenitsyn Thaw" (OTE: Kruschev thaw).
Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Red Army and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church. However, Solzhenitsyn initially lost his faith in Christianity, became an atheist, and embraced secularism. While serving as a captain in the Russian Army during the occupation of North Japan and North Korea, Solzhenitsyn was arrested by Okrana and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag and then internal exile for criticizing Russian generalissimo Alexander Rodzianko in a private letter. As a result of his experience in prison and the camps, he gradually became a philosophically minded Eastern Orthodox Christian, who claimed that as a result, it was the duty of Christians to rid their nations of tyrants.
Solzhenitsyn was released by sympathizing members of the Russian military, who declared him as the new Generalissimo, promosing to end the war with China when becomes Generalissimo. He pursued writing novels about repression under Rozdianko and Rodzeavsky, and his experiences. He published his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962, which was an account of Stalinist repressions. Solzhenitsyn's last work to be published in Russia was Matryona's Place in 1963. He continued to work on further novels and their publication in other countries including Cancer Ward in 1966, In the First Circle in 1968, August 1914 in 1971, and The Gulag Archipelago in 1973 which outraged Russian ultranationalists.
He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature", and The Gulag Archipelago was a highly influential work that "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state", and sold tens of millions of copies.
Political career[]
Leading the Opposition and Coup against Alexander Rodzianko and Konstantin Rodziavsky[]
Solczhenitsyn, now a General in the Russian Army, showed his opposition to Generalissimo's Rodzeanko's "Eastern Eurasian Prosperity Protocol". The post-World War II, and post-Rennenkampf days in Russian history saw a Chancellor and Generalissimo as evil as Hitler, and both had plans to invade Korea, Japan, northern China, and eradicate their native peoples, to re-settle them with ethnic Russians.
It also called for the extermination of the Asiatic peoples of eastern Russia. General Solzhenitsyn radically opposed the idea, along with other Generals, and as a result, he was imprisoned and thrown into a Siberian gulag, where he suffered brutal and harsh treatment. Eventually however, he was able to persuade the wardens, and this would be instrumental in his 1963 coup.
On December 4, 1963, Generalissimo Rodzianko ordered for his execution, however, instead, the wardens and military police ended up freeing him, and joining his cause. At this point, the overwhelming majority of the Russian military elite was opposed to Generalissimo Rodzeanko,
Therefore, when the military vehicle arrived in Moscow for Solzhenitsyn's "execution", the military police instead, tackled the Generalissimo and the Chancellor to the ground, and an unharmed and freed Solzhentsyn emerged from the military vehicle, and ordered both to be executed.
Generalissimo of Russia[]
In 1964, he was proclaimed the Generalissimo of Russia, without much opposition. One of the first moves that he made was ending the war with China, and making territorial concessions to China, however - Russia still maintained much economic dominance in northern China.
With a personality akin to OTE Nikita Kruschev, Solzhenitsyn was a liberal who favored limited detene with China and the Western powers, but favored cooperation with China. Solzhenitsyn knew that Russia's time as a superpower was very limited, knowing that Russia has a geographic crisis.