Books: Survival in Siberia

ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH (160 pp.)—Alexander Solzhenltsyn —Duffon ($3.95).

ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH (210 pp.)—Alexander Solzhenitsyn —Praeger ($3.95).

Last November a Soviet magazine ran the harshest indictment of Stalinism ever printed in Russia: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novel dealing with life in one of Stalin's Siberian concentration camps (which Khrushchev claims to have shut down). On orders from above, the Russian press heaped extravagant praise on the novel. People queued up far into the night for copies at Moscow newsstands; 95,000...

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