Aleksandr Shozhenitsyn recounts four decades of oppression in the Soviet Union, describing how the government tried to control every aspect of Russian society.
Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician, lives out his life in post-war Russia in a series of prisons and labor camps where he and his fellow inmates work to meet the demands of Stalin.
A collection of eight interconnected stories by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn that explore life in Russia under the Soviet regime and in the years following the fall of the Soviet Union.
The cancer ward of a Soviet hospital becomes a microcosm of life itself as an array of uniquely Russian characters face the fact of death yet struggle to fulfill their human hopes and needs.
Presents an English translation of Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, " telling of a labor camp inmate's struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of Communist oppression.
