Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Soviet-Russian author and dissident (1918–2008)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with…