The first volume of the 30-volume collected works of Solzhenitsyn represents a complete collection of his short stories and krohotki. Early Stories exploded literary and social life of the 60s, made ??world-famous author's name and the names of his literary heroes common nouns. Turning to the major form - V Kruge pervom, Rakoviy Korpus, Archipelago GULAG, Krasnoe Koleso - the author only a quarter century has returned to the genre of short stories, essentially transforming it. Lyrics are provided with extensive commentary, which will allow the reader to experience the historical detail and context everyday time. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( 11 December 1918 - 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer, dissident and activist. He helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system. While his writings were often suppressed, he wrote several books most notably The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. For the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature,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.