Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) was a Russian novelist, historian and political prisoner. Being an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, he helped shed the light on Gulag labor camp prisons.
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Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) was a French writer, a political activist and a feminist, deeply connected to the existentialist movement. She's known...