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 “Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition.” This person’s words are “measures of weights” (10[1])and fingers “ten thick worms” in a poem that describes “the huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip.” (10[1])The novel In the First Circle chronicles the rule of this person, the subject of an “Epigram” by Osip (10[1])Mandelstam. An (10[1])autobiographical novel in three volumes set during this leader’s rule describes the timeline of a typical “zek.” For 10 points, (10[1])Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag (10[1])Archipelago describes the era of rule of what Soviet dictator? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])