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...HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Jason Robards Jr. stars in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, from the recent novel about life in a Russian concentration camp...
...Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One day seems like a lifetime in this grim novel about conditions in one of Stalin's slave labor camps...
...Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. An ex-political prisoner, who spent eight years in Siberia, has soared to fame in Russia by writing a roughhewn novel about life in one of Stalin's concentration camps...
Last November a Soviet magazine ran the harshest indictment of Stalinism ever printed in Russia: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novel dealing with life in one of Stalin's Siberian concentration camps (which Khrushchev claims to have shut down). On orders from above, the Russian press heaped extravagant praise on the novel. People queued up far into the night for copies at Moscow newsstands; 95,000 were sold in a single...
Dryly and precisely, Solzhenitsyn describes life at the camp, piling horror on top of horror, until the place seems too monstrous to be believed. One day in the life of the peasant hero Ivan Denisovich Shukhov seems a lifetime...