num_pages: 159
description: One of the most chilling novels about the oppression of totalitarian regimes and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps; if Solzhenitsyn later became Russia's conscience in exile, this is the book with which he first challenged the brutal might of the Soviet Union.
language: English
title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
titlecomplete: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
characters: Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
genres: Historical, Literature, 20th Century, Classics, School, Novels, Russian Literature, Russia, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 110231
places: Russian Federation, Soviet Union
publisher: Everyman's Library