Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Writers From The Communist Era (9 person items)

"It was Alexandr Solzhenitsyn who introduced the outside world to the gulags, the famous Soviet work camps where the bourgeoisie, political prisoners, and other unwanted elements would all too often find themselves, particularly while Josef Stalin was in power. His One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich tells explicitly – and in great detail – about what these prisoners went through, often for such innocent crimes as writing down something derogatory about the regime, as Solzhenitsyn did. He "