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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a semi-autobiography story of a man imprisoned in a gulag in the 1940s.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1974

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Stalin's Great Purges

Teaching and Learning Resources

PDF full text version of the novel

Sparknotes summary of the book

New York Times book review (January 22, 1963)

Historical Context of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich from Chicago Public Library

Alexander Solzhenitsyn from Noble Prize.org

Solzhenitsyn, Literary Giant Who Defied Soviets, Dies at 89 (August 4, 2008)

Click here and here and here for lesson plans for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

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Image shows the Vorkuta industrial concentration camp complex was located 160km above the Arctic Circle. The city had a population of approximately 15,000 and about 50 camps with more than 50,000 inmates.