Aleksandr Isáyevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: Александр Исаевич Солженицын, Romanization: Aleksandr Isaevič Solženicyn) (Kislovodsk, Russia, December 11, 1918 - Moscow, Russia, August 3, 2008) was a Russian writer and historian, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. Critic of Soviet socialism, helped to build the image of the Gulag, the forced labor camp system of the Soviet Union in which he was present from 1945 to 1956. Much of his work was censored by the Soviet state apparatus, but his work reached a remarkable volume, especially the Gulag Archipelago, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, August 1914 and the Cancer Pavilion. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, "for the ethical force with which he has continued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Conservative and anti-communist, he is an admirer of the Franco and Pinochet