Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Russian author. Solzhenitsyn’s often-suppressed writings, helped to raise global awareness of the gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system, particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed. His book, For Good of the Cause, Frederick A. Praeger, 1964, signed on the first title page, “for John Flint…Nov 1982.†The dust jacket shows wear. The inscription is printed by another. Solzhenitsyn has added the date.