Bio: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer. A prominent Soviet dissident, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn would have been no older than 89 in The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History as 'Self - Writer (archive footage)'.
