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(AP Photo/Bernhard Frye) :: In this Nov. 16, 1974 picture, AlexanderSolzhenitsyn gives his first news conference in the West since being expelled from Russia earlier in the year, calling for a campaign of passive resistance to Communist rule and ideology, at his home in Zurich. Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning chronicler of the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, died late Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008, according to his son. He was 89.
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