Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Russian author and Nobel laureate who exposed the Soviet Gulag system in works that shook the world. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago are defining texts of Cold War dissident literature.

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