Summary
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day of Ivan Denisovich
One Day of Ivan Denisovich is a Russian novel written in 1962 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The plot follows one day in the life of the title character. He is a prisoner sentenced to 10 years in a gulag somewhere in the Asian part of the Soviet Union in 1951. The plot is based on the autobiographical experiences of the author himself, who spent 8 years in the gulag for insulting Stalin in a letter. The novel is significant because it was the first Russian literary work that spoke openly about this taboo subject. Censorship was avoided thanks to the fact that the demolition of Stalin's cult of personality was in force.
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