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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich canonical | 8 |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970 film) | 1 |
| Один день Ивана Денисовича | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
literary work
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novella ⓘ |
| adaptation |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970 film)
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| approvedForPublicationBy | Nikita Khrushchev ⓘ |
| author |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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| awarded |
Prix Formentor
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Prix Formentor (to author, partly for this work)
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| censorshipStatusAtPublication | officially approved ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Alyosha the Baptist
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Captain Buinovsky ⓘ Fetyukov ⓘ Gopchik ⓘ Tyurin ⓘ |
| contributedTo | international awareness of Soviet labor camps ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| criticalReception | highly acclaimed ⓘ |
| depicts |
camp hierarchy
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extreme cold ⓘ forced labor ⓘ scarcity of food ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Caspar Wrede ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationLeadActor | Tom Courtenay ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Novy Mir ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780451527097 ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
de-Stalinization
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Khrushchev Thaw
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| includedInSchoolCurricula | yes ⓘ |
| influenced |
The Gulag Archipelago
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Gulag Archipelago
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| literaryGenre |
political fiction
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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
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Один день Ивана Денисовича
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| pageCountApproximate | about 160 ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | bricklayer ⓘ |
| protagonistStatus | political prisoner ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| publisherFirstEdition | Novy Mir magazine ⓘ |
| setting | Soviet labor camp ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Stalin era
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Stalinist era
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| structure | third-person limited narration ⓘ |
| theme |
Gulag system
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dehumanization ⓘ human dignity ⓘ survival ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ |
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Один день Ивана Денисовича
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Tom Courtenay