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Cancer Wardby: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn May 01, 2003 |
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This work of Russian literature -which is quite epic in scope-deals with many themes.
It is set in a clinic in Soviet ruled Uzbekistan for cancer patients ,in the mid 1950's ,shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin. It deals with the personal stories and lives of many different characters There are parallels between the cancer that ravages the bodies of the dying patients and the cancer of Communism that ravaged the once proud Russia. The hero of the novel is Oleg Kostolgotov who has gone from being a soldier on the frontline of Russia's fight against the invading Nazi armies during world War II to a political prisoner doomed to destruction for falling foul of Stalin's psychopathic system to a cancer patient lingering ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Gulag Archipelago [Abridged] (Harvill Press Editions)by: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn January 30, 2003 |
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A reader from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK, writes:
Bearing in mind Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel prize for literature principally for this book, this might help you draw your own conclusions about its merit. This is the abridged version of the full 3 volume book, abridged by an American academic with the author's consent and cooperation, in a conscious effort to increase its readership and alert the wider world of the tyrannical regime experienced by the people of the Soviet Union under Stalin and others. The fact that the book has been shortened makes for gaps and omissions that are fairly apparent to the reader and as a result the book does lose its way a little, and parts of the book towards the end I found fairly heavy going. However ... Read More: >>More Details |
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichby: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn August 07, 2008 |
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Gripping. This account of one day in the life of a gulag prisoner is a terrifying insight into the barbarity of us humans. Who knows the true number of intelligent and educated men who were in cahoots with Stalin to design a system that reduced men to wild dogs and dust. And lest we fool ourselves that this could only have happened in soviet Russia or fascist Germany. Remember we had slavery in the US and all over Africa and the Middle East, in Greece, Rome, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. These are just the ones where we have something written down. Today we also have economic gulags - in Brazil, Mexico, India and in western economies where we are actively encouraged to keep spending especially on credit burying ourselves in a ballooning muck of debt. ... Read More:
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)by: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn August 27, 1970 |
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Gripping. This account of one day in the life of a gulag prisoner is a terrifying insight into the barbarity of us humans. Who knows the true number of intelligent and educated men who were in cahoots with Stalin to design a system that reduced men to wild dogs and dust. And lest we fool ourselves that this could only have happened in soviet Russia or fascist Germany. Remember we had slavery in the US and all over Africa and the Middle East, in Greece, Rome, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. These are just the ones where we have something written down. Today we also have economic gulags - in Brazil, Mexico, India and in western economies where we are actively encouraged to keep spending especially on credit burying ourselves in a ballooning muck of debt. With ... Read More:
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Everyman's Library classics)by: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn September 21, 1995 |
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Gripping. This account of one day in the life of a gulag prisoner is a terrifying insight into the barbarity of us humans. Who knows the true number of intelligent and educated men who were in cahoots with Stalin to design a system that reduced men to wild dogs and dust. And lest we fool ourselves that this could only have happened in soviet Russia or fascist Germany. Remember we had slavery in the US and all over Africa and the Middle East, in Greece, Rome, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. These are just the ones where we have something written down. Today we also have economic gulags - in Brazil, Mexico, India and in western economies where we are actively encouraged to keep spending especially on credit burying ourselves in a ballooning muck of debt. With luck ... Read More:
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First Circle, Theby: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn August 04, 1988 |
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After enjoying 'One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich' and 'Cancer Ward', I decided to try The First Circle. I was a little daunted on seeing the list of featured characters at the beginning of the book (which is very helpful, by the way!), but I loved the fact that the story is told from the point of view of several characters - prisoners and their jailers, the privileged and the alleged enemies of society.
By describing three days in the life of a special prison, Solzhenitsyn presents a microcosm of life in Stalin's Soviet Union. Clearly, the paranoia, the dishonesty and the degrading treatment of those who may simply have happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time make for bleak reading, yet there are many heartening and genuinely amusing moments. ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Perennial Classic.)by: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn 2002-01 |
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One of the most monumental accounts of one of the cruellest ideologies of history,this book should be read by all
Layer by layer Solzhenitsyn exposes the hideous system of imprisonment ,death and torture that he refers to as the 'Gulag Archipelago' He strips away that the misconception of the good Tsar Lenin betrayed by his evil heirs and exposes how it was Lenin and his henchmen who put into place the brutal totalitarianism , which would be inherited and continued by Stalin In fact the only thing that Stalin really did differently was to introduce a more personalised ,Imperial style of rule but otherwise carried on the evil work of Lenin It was Lenin who imprisoned the Cadets (Constitutional Democrats) , Mensheviks,Social Democrats,Social Revolutionaries ... Read More: >>More Details |
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August 1914by: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn January 31, 1974 |
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This is a massive historical novel about the Russian campaign against the Germans in the first month of the First World War. A large cast of characters shows the great-hearted Russian troops undermined by incompetence behind the lines and lying, cowardly generals. It's a depressingly familiar story, but Solzhenitsyn's ability to fire your sympathy for individual characters, despite their flaws, still had me biting my fist and begging that the inevitable didn't happen, and outraged by the hypocrisy in high places which betrayed the sacrifice of the men at the front line. A narrative which moves from one part of the scattered Russian armies to another is united by the figure of Colonel Vorotyntsev, an idealistic young officer who tries against the odds to co ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Cancer Wardby: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn February 25, 1971 |
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This work of Russian literature -which is quite epic in scope-deals with many themes.
It is set in a clinic in Soviet ruled Uzbekistan for cancer patients ,in the mid 1950's ,shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin. It deals with the personal stories and lives of many different characters There are parallels between the cancer that ravages the bodies of the dying patients and the cancer of Communism that ravaged the once proud Russia. The hero of the novel is Oleg Kostolgotov who has gone from being a soldier on the frontline of Russia's fight against the invading Nazi armies during world War II to a political prisoner doomed to destruction for falling foul of Stalin's psychopathic system to a cancer patient lingering in a rundown hospital He lives life ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigationby: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn 1974-06 |
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One of the most monumental accounts of one of the cruellest ideologies of history,this book should be read by all
Layer by layer Solzhenitsyn exposes the hideous system of imprisonment ,death and torture that he refers to as the 'Gulag Archipelago' He strips away that the misconception of the good Tsar Lenin betrayed by his evil heirs and exposes how it was Lenin and his henchmen who put into place the brutal totalitarianism , which would be inherited and continued by Stalin In fact the only thing that Stalin really did differently was to introduce a more personalised ,Imperial style of rule but otherwise carried on the evil work of Lenin It was Lenin who imprisoned the Cadets (Constitutional Democrats) , Mensheviks,Social Democrats,Social Revolutionaries Anarchists ... Read More: >>More Details |
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