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