Cancer Ward (1968)
Cancer Ward is a 1968 Russian-language russia book written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the *Listener*
Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this novel, went in the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of *Cancer Ward* in 1968 confirmed him as Russia's greatest living novelist although it has never been openly published in the Soviet Union.
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What is Cancer Ward about?
'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the *Listener* Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this novel, went in the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of *Cancer Ward* in 1968 confirmed him as Russia's greatest living novelist although it has never been openly published in the Soviet Union.
When was Cancer Ward published?
Cancer Ward was published in 1968.
Who made Cancer Ward?
Cancer Ward was written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.