The 8th Volume contains the end of August the Fourteenth - the first Node to the historical epic Red Wheel. It completed screening and analysis of Samson disaster and given an overview of artistic reign of the last Emperor Nikolai II until the First World War and vividly portrayed the figure of Prime Minister Stolypin, his work, reform and tragic death. 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.
