Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A Russian author.
Cancer Ward
Oleg Kostoglotov has just been released from a labor camp and has stomach cancer. He falls in love with a nurse named Zoya. The older nurse Vera helps him with treatment. Oleg is discharged. Pavel Nikolayevich Rusanov is discharged just because no one likes him
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Ivan Denisovich survives a day in a Soviet labor camp
The First Circle
Nerzhin [like Solzhenitsyn] is inmate in sharashka prison where educated people continue research. Lev Rubin [like Lev Kopelev] maintains faith in Communism
The Gulag Archipelago
acronym for Soviet Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps. literary investigation of prison camps 1918-1956