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A cancer ward in Tashkent, Soviet Uzbekistan, is where Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn sets his semi-autobiographical novel, over several weeks of spring 1955, two years after Stalin's death. After years of exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, Oleg Kostoglotov, a former soldier and labor camp prisoner, arrives in Ward 13 with a cancer diagnosis. His fellow patients include people who profited from Stalinism, resisted it or went along, among them the informer Pavel Rusanov, who fears revenge from a man he once denounced. Amid crude treatment in squalid conditions, the story weighs the moral responsibility of those implicated in the Great Purge. Solzhenitsyn himself was a cancer patient in the mid-1950s, after his release from a labor camp.
Jordan B. Peterson included it among the suggested readings for Maps of Meaning.
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