The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West.
This book tells a story of one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov that is sufficient to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps..
The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West