The Russian Nobelist’s major work, back in print for the centenary of World War I and the Russian RevolutionIn his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian
Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also
The long narrative poem composed and committed to memory during Solzhenitsyn's prison-camp years is based on the Russian writer's experiences as a young artillery officer during the Second World War
