Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Novella depicting a single day in the life of a Soviet gulag labor camp prisoner

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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.

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