One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Join us for a discussion of the Russian novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Published in 1962, the novella narrates a single day in the life of a prisoner in a Soviet prison camp during the early 1950s. Solzhenitsyn himself had spent years in the Soviet Gulag for criticizing Stalin. One Day was published with the consent of Nikita Kruschev. After Kruschev's ouster from power, the book was removed from publication but continued to circulate among the population illegally until the Soviet Union fell. The book remains a classic today as a testament of political dissent.
We'll meet again at the Mission Valley Library this time in Seminar Room A. Feel free to bring your own refreshments. The library sets a limit of 12 persons for the room so please be sure to RSVP. Please change your RSVP to not attending if you can no longer make it.

-dave rankin