One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
In September 2009, the Education Ministry of Russia announced that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago", a book once banned in the Soviet Union for the detailed account on the system of prison camps, became required reading for Russian high-school students. Prior to that, Russian students studied Solzhenitsyn's short story "Matryonin dvor" and his novella "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", an account of a single day in the life of a gulag prisoner.