Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, a piece of string or a single match in a world where survival is all. This work lets you participate in the struggle of men to survive both the terrible rigours of nature and the inhumanity of the system that defines their conditions of life.

Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health grounds to internment or death. It also give a psychological insight into the intensified experience of people under varying degrees of pressure and deprivation.

The Russian masterpiece by Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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.

Addresses the subject of detente, democracy and dictatorship. This book includes Solzhenitsyn's final 2007 interview with the German publication Der Spiegel .

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 is due to the accounts of many witnesses, but most of all to the publication, in 1962, of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , the novel that first brought the author to public attention.

Foreshadowing his later accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, this is the author's portrayal of life in the gulag.

A collection of memoirs from Soviet gulag that lends a voice to the many ordinary people - including a circus performer, a teenage boy, and a Red Army soldier - whom a brutal system attempted to erase from memory.

This collection of stories by Solzhenitsyn is part of the BCP Russian Texts series, designed to meet the needs of the growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Russian language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an expert.