Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist and historian who spent eight years in Soviet labour camps after criticising Stalin in a private letter. His story One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) was the first published Soviet account of the camps, and The Gulag Archipelago, published abroad from 1973, documented the whole system. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, was expelled in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994.