Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), was a Russian novelist, historian, and critic of Soviet totalitarianism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned for mocking Stalin in a private letter "The Gulag Archipelago", written from 1958-1968. 1945 Seen here as a prisoner, in his prison uniform and hat, and number Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies