The speaker declares that “an oppressed man / Strives again to reach the pure mountain” in this author’s poem “To the Moon.” An allegory of this real-life person is told “we’ve got Shakespeare there” and “we play solitaire / and violin” in the poem (10[2])“Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition.” This person’s words are “measures of weights” (10[1])and fingers “ten thick worms” (10[1])in a poem that describes (10[1])“the huge laughing cockroaches (10[3])on his (-5[1])top lip.” (10[2]-5[1])The novel (10[1])In the First Circle (-5[1])chronicles the rule of this person, the subject of an “Epigram” by Osip (10[2])Mandelstam. (10[1])An (10[1])autobiographical novel in three volumes set during this leader’s rule describes (10[1])the timeline of a typical “zek.” For 10 points, (10[2])Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s (10[1])The Gulag (10[1])Archipelago (10[2])describes (10[1])the era (10[2])of rule (10[1])of what Soviet dictator? (10[3])■END■ (10[5])