Monday 8 September 2008

Great and grim


The story is set in a soviet labour camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was a major event in Soviet literary history—never before had an account of "Stalinist repression" been openly distributed. I recommend it highly

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