Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago is the most comprehensive and devastating account of the Soviet prison camp system, written at enormous personal risk and published in the West when the author was still in the USSR. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.
Works
- The Gulag ArchipelagoMonumental history of the Soviet gulag prison camp system and political repression under Stalin
- One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichNovella depicting a single day in the life of a Soviet gulag labor camp prisoner
- Cancer WardNovel about dying patients in a Soviet hospital reflecting on life during Khrushchev era
- The First CircleNovel set in Soviet sharashka prison where scientists conduct research under confinement
- August 1914Epic historical novel centered on Russia's initial mobilization during World War One