Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian …
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps. His story is …
August 1914 is a novel by Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about Imperial Russia's defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia. The novel was completed in 1970, first published in 1971, and an English translation was first published in 1972. The novel is an unusual blend of fiction narrative and …
Ivan Denisoviç'in Yaşamında Bir Gün Aleksandır Soljenitsin'in yazdığı, Kasım 1962'de basılan romanının ismidir. Roman Sovyet edebiyat dergisi Novy Mir'de yayınlanmıştır. Roman 1950'lerde bir Sovyet çalışma kampında geçmekte, ve sıradan bir mahkumun, Ivan Denisoviç'in, bir gününü anlatmaktadır. Yayınlanması dünyada hem …