Author of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Solzhenitsyn uses the text to describe the work camps as a microcosm of the society of the USSR during the mid 20th century. ... Life in the Soviet Union was always terrorizing. ... Prisoners would wake at dawn every morning feeling a sense of fear at the thought that perhaps it was their last day alive. ... This microcosm that Solzhenitsyn proposes within "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" is in direct comparison to the society of the USSR. ... In "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," Gopchik is a six...

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