Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918, Russia — 2008

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer and dissident, known for The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. His work exposed the Soviet labor camp system and the mechanisms of political repression. His books were banned in the Soviet Union, and he was expelled from the country in 1974. Solzhenitsyn responded through continued writing and international advocacy, becoming one of the most prominent critics of Soviet repression and a Nobel laureate in Literature.