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Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, 1974. Solzhenitsyn's (1918-2008) novels were instrumental in raising global awareness of the Soviet system of forced labour camps, the Gulag. He spent 8 years in the camps himself from 1945 until 1953 after being found guilty of anti-Soviet propaganda for writing letters critical of Stalin's conduct of the Second World War. He was exonerated in 1956 under the Khrushchev regime, but after Khrushchev was ousted from power in 1964 his works were suppressed by the authorities. In 1974 Solzhenitsyn was stripped of his citizenship and deported from the Soviet Union. His citizenship was restored in 1990 and he returned to live in Russia four years later. In 1970 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Found in the collection of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow.