ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Its publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history—never before had an account of Stalinist repression been openly distributed.
Dr. Roger Rouse, professor with the Global Studies Center and Joshua Andy, history teacher at Winchester-Thurston will present this book giving both a historical background and lesson plans to incorporate the book in a history, social studies or world literature curriculum.