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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (view source)
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'''''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich''''' (1962) is a short novel<ref>209 pages</ref> by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] which was one of the greatest to emerge from the [[communist]] [[Soviet Union]]. It extols the ability of the human will to triumph over the most inhumane conditions. When Solzhenitsyn won the [[Nobel Prize]] in Literature in 1970, the presentation speech highlighted both the novel's instant impact and how it established its author as "a major new writer."<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1970/ceremony-speech/</ref>
'''''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich''''' (1962) is a short novel<ref>209 pages</ref> by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] which was one of the greatest to emerge from the [[communist]] [[Soviet Union]]. It extols the ability of the human will to triumph over the most inhumane conditions. When Solzhenitsyn won the [[Nobel Prize]] in Literature in 1970, the presentation speech highlighted both the novel's instant impact and how it established its author as "a major new writer."<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1970/ceremony-speech/</ref>
The novel, despite having plain anti-communist themes, was unanimously endorsed by the Soviet regime at the time and officially published by the Soviet "New World" (''Новый Мир'') magazine throughout the country in 1962.<ref>https://urokiistorii.ru/history_days/publikacija-odnogo-dnja-ivana-denisovicha</ref>
An excerpt from the book:
An excerpt from the book: