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Moscow, over three days in December 1949, at the height of Stalin's postwar terror, is the setting of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel. At its center is the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a mathematician of thirty-one who has survived the German front and then a series of Soviet prisons and labor camps. His story is woven together with those of about a dozen fellow prisoners, from the prison janitor to the Marxist intellectual who designed the Dnieper dam, and with officials, their subordinates and the women tied to these men. Another thread follows Innokenty, a young diplomat who helps a friend in danger of arrest. Oppressors appear as victims too. The novel was first published in 1968.
Jordan B. Peterson included it among the suggested readings for Maps of Meaning.
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