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Один день Ивана Денисовича

Pages
158
Published
1992
Language
English

Synopsis

This novel follows Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp, through a single day of his brutal existence. It vividly portrays his daily struggle for survival and dignity amidst the harsh realities of communist oppression. The book offers a stark look into the world of Stalin's forced work camps.

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Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his writings he helped to make the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his two best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conduct...

Characters

Ivan Denisovich ShukhovProtagonist
Joseph StalinAntagonist
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