Title: Один день Ивана Денисовича
First published: February 1, 1992
Description: First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.
Subjects: Communism, Forced labor, Fiction, Russian fiction, Political fiction, Prison Life in Fiction, Concentration camps, Communism in literature, Prisons, Translations into English, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Soviet union, fiction, History, Russian language, English language, Translations from Russian, Literature, Political prisoners, Russian, Russian Short stories, Komunisticky rezim, Pracovni tabory, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, war & military, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Literary, Internment camps, Convict labor, Russe (langue), Lectures et morceaux choisis, Travail forcé, Romans, nouvelles, Camps d'internement, Political persecution, Children's fiction, Fiction, general, Literary, English & college success -> english -> fiction, Russian literature
Places: Russia, Soviet Union
People: Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Ivan Denisovich
Time periods: 1950's