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Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of the soviet union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its gulag labor camp system. Cancer ward ebook by aleksandr solzhenitsyn 9781466839601. Cancer ward project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, aleksandr solzhenitsyns cancer ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous soviet police state. Cancer ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the. Reading solzhenitsyn s cancer ward without the historical background of the country in which it is set, a casual reader would be shocked to learn this book was banned by the soviet government for many years.
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