One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn torrent

Category: Classic, Literature, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Gulag Labour Camp Siberia USSR

Written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Read by Frank Muller
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich portrays a single day, any day, in the life of a single Russian soldier who was captured by the Germans in 1945 and who managed to escape a few days later. Along with millions of others, this soldier was charged with some sort of political crime, and since it was easier to confess than deny it and die, Ivan Denisovich “confessed” to “high treason” and received a sentence of 10 years in a Siberian labor camp.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was mentioned in the Nobel Prize presentation speech when Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

While Solzhenitsyn and his work were originally received negatively, under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the book’s mass publication was allowed to undermine the influence of Josef Stalin on the Soviet Union. However, critics of this action argue that it unleashed liberalization that would cause the publication of more radical works and eventually the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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