Collected Works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. It is planned to publish 30 volumes. Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) - Soviet and Russian writer, playwright, publicist, poet, public and political figure who lived and worked in the USSR, Switzerland, USA and Russia. Nobel Prize laureate in literature (1970). In addition to literary works affecting, as a rule, acute socio-political issues, he was widely known for his historical and journalistic works on the history of Russia in the 19th-20th centuries.