![]() ![]() ![]() Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was writing about the gulag system under Joseph Stalin, the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 (following the death of Vladimir Lenin, the guy who led the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, which brought the communists to power) until his death in 1952. Gulags were forced labor camps where millions of people were sent for "crimes" like practicing a certain religion, having contact with foreigners, and speaking out against the government. ![]() What on earth is a gulag? Well, "gulag" is the name of a type of prison that existed in Soviet Russia. This book is a work of fiction, but it is also a kind of journalistic tell-all about a serious topic: the gulag system. See, One Day was a hugely bold and controversial book that was published in 1962 in Soviet Russia. In fact, this book's history is kind of nuts. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich IntroductionĪ lot of books have a fairly typical history – author writes book, book gets published, people read it, author says "hooray!" One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is not one of those books. ![]()
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