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by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, follows a single day in the life of a prisoner, Ivan Denisovich, who is referred to as Shukhov. Solzhenitsyn draws the readers into the story and takes us on a long, dark journey, exposing…
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a story about a man, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, who is in a Russian Siberian prison/labor camp for expression of anti-Stalinistic ideas. The story describes the events of a single day in this man’s life and his…
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Author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Country
Soviet Union
Original language
Russian
Original title
Один день Ивана Денисовича
Genre
Novel, Fiction
Publication date
1962
Major Characters
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov , Gopchik , Andrey Prokofyevich Tiurin, Fetiukov, Tsezar/Caesar Markovich, Buinovsky, Pavlo , Ivan Kilgas, Senka Klevshin
Plot
The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and follows a single day in the life of ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
