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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich |
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No copies available |
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Paperback |
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204 |
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1976 |
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B000I34AQO |
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Bantam |
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0.3 pounds |
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4.0 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches |
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Product Description
This story covers one "ordinary" day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, charged with treason by Stalin during WWII and sentenced to 10 yr. in a Siberian concentration camp, and is not very unlike the experience of the author.
The book is heralded as being the first in the Soviet Union to expose the widespread imprisonment of the Russian people during Stalin's reign that were arrested, often for nothing greater than a careless remark about Stalin. Almost every Russian family was said to have some relative that served time in the crowded labor camps. The cruelty and injustice, the fear of speaking even to one's neighbor for fear of being misquoted or "tattled on , created a society that caused people to be paranoid of each other and frightened for their freedom every day, in addition to the extreme poverty and profound hardships suffered during the war.
The story is extremely bleak & dreary, as was life in the camps. Ivan's day covers a lot of forming lines to be counted, marching to and from work detail, with a large percentage of the pages devoted to that work: hauling the blocks, lifting, mortaring, finding tools and supplies, etc. But then, that was what his day was. As bad as the work was in the bitter cold and wind, what seemed just as bad was the way a man had to learn to live by his wits in order to survive whether from fellow prisoners or officials...to get an ounce of extra bread, tobacco, to keep his food or a rag of clothing from being stolen from him, and every other minute detail of daily life we live without even being aware of it. It was survival of the fittest, man's inhumanity to man.
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