One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a landmark Russian novella that offers a stark, detailed portrayal of a single day in a Soviet labor camp, exposing the brutality and dehumanization of the Gulag system.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
novella
adaptation One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich self-linksurface differs
surface form: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970 film)
approvedForPublicationBy Nikita Khrushchev
author Alexander Solzhenitsyn
surface form: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
awarded Prix Formentor
surface form: Prix Formentor (to author, partly for this work)
censorshipStatusAtPublication officially approved
containsCharacter Alyosha the Baptist
Captain Buinovsky
Fetyukov
Gopchik
Tyurin
contributedTo international awareness of Soviet labor camps
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
criticalReception highly acclaimed
depicts camp hierarchy
extreme cold
forced labor
scarcity of food
filmAdaptationDirector Caspar Wrede
filmAdaptationLeadActor Tom Courtenay
firstPublishedIn Novy Mir
hasISBN 9780451527097
historicalContext de-Stalinization
surface form: Khrushchev Thaw
includedInSchoolCurricula yes
influenced The Gulag Archipelago
surface form: Gulag Archipelago
literaryGenre political fiction
prison literature
social realism
literaryMovement dissident literature
mainCharacter Ivan Denisovich Shukhov
narrativeTimeSpan one day
notableFor first major Soviet work openly depicting Gulag
originalLanguage Russian
originalTitle One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich self-linksurface differs
surface form: Один день Ивана Денисовича
pageCountApproximate about 160
protagonistOccupation bricklayer
protagonistStatus political prisoner
publicationYear 1962
publisherFirstEdition Novy Mir magazine
setting Soviet labor camp
settingPeriod Stalin era
surface form: Stalinist era
structure third-person limited narration
theme Gulag system
dehumanization
human dignity
survival
totalitarianism

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this entity surface form: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970 film)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich originalTitle One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Один день Ивана Денисовича
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The First Circle relatedWork One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Thomas notableWork One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
subject surface form: Tom Courtenay
Thomas Daniel Courtenay notableWork One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich