One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was an extraordinary event i... more »n Soviet literary history?never before had an account of Stalinist repression been openly distributed. The editor of Novy Mir, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, wrote a short introduction for the issue, titled ?Instead of a Foreword,? to prepare the journal?s readers for what they were about to experience.« less
ISBN-13: 9780131919297 ISBN-10: 0131919296 Publication Date: 4/12/2004 Edition:New Ed Rating: