One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One of the most chilling novels ever written about the oppression of totalitarian regimes--and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps, this book allowed Solzhenitsyn, who later became Russia's conscience in exile, to challenge the brutal might of the Soviet Union.
One of the most chilling novels ever written about the oppression of totalitarian regimes--and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps, this book allowed Solzhenitsyn, who later became Russia's conscience in exile, to challenge the brutal might of the Soviet Union.
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780374529529
Publish date: 16-03-2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Classic Literature,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Historical
The books tittle One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich gives away what this book is about. One day in the Siberia's Gulag. You, know that the place when sometimes it is so cold that birds freeze and fall from the sky. Not impressed? Sometimes in winters boiling water freezes in Siberia. (On Februar...
I'll admit I'm a philistine when it comes to literature. Another required read that snuck in there. Who would have thought that I would have enjoyed a book about a political prisoner in a prison camp? But I did. This was a very good story.
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