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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the publication, in 1962, of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", the novel that first brought Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn to public ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780099449270
ISBN-10: 0099449277
Publication Date: 8/7/2008
Pages: 176
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I read this book over fifteen years ago and still remember it!

As a child in middle-school all I could think was: Wow. Why; because even the prison system here in the U.S. during that time frame was better than in Russia. Yet, I would imagine that some things were (or still are) very similar.
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This book is a great ready about the daily struggle of a man named Ivan who is trying to survive in a concentration camp. The book describes Ivan's encounters with the guards and the "games" that the guards use against the prisoners to cause problems amongst themselves. There is no friends for Ivan in this life that he now lives, no one is to be trusted. Even though each new day is like the day before, Ivan remains hopeful that somehow this new day will be just a little better than the last.
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Very intriguing look at life in the Russian Gulag