One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

p>b>FROM THE PUBLISHER OF i>THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO/i> - THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED TRANSLATION OF SOLZHENITSYN'S SEARING DEBUT NOVEL/b>br>br>The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the publication, in 1962, of i>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,/i> the novel that first brought Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to public attention. His story of one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sufficient to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps.br>br>Translated from the Russian by H. T. Willetts/p> p>b>FROM THE PUBLISHER OF i>THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO/i> - THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED TRANSLATION OF SOLZHENITSYN'S SEARING DEBUT NOVEL/b>br>br>The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the publication, in 1962, of i>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,/i> the novel that first brought Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to public attention. His story of one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sufficient to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps.br>br>Translated from the Russian by H. T. Willetts/p>