Ranked #7 in Communism, Ranked #10 in Prison — see more rankings.
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Robert Conquest Yes let’s do that as I’ve quite a lot to say about old Solzh. It was a critical book – an entirely objective account of a victim in a labour camp. Just one day in an ordinary labour camp. Not exaggerated, not even a particularly nasty day. The most extraordinary part is how is got printed. It ran contrary to everyone in the Communist Party in Russia, but the Novy Mir editor Tvardovsky snuck a copy in to Khrushchev and said, ‘This is awfully good, you ought to publish it’. And he did. It was an extraordinary stroke of luck. And once it was printed, as Galina put it, ‘The Soviet government had... (Source)
Rankings by Category
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is ranked in the following categories:
- #18 in Nobel
- #10 in Russian
- #27 in Russian History
- #98 in Short
- #54 in The Cold War
- #58 in Translated