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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 into the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of Cancer Ward in 1968 confirmed his as Russia's greatest living novelist. Cancer Ward was not published openly in the Soviet Union until permission for its serialisation was granted over two decades later, in 1989.

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Cancer ward, Alexander Issajewitsch Solschenizyn

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1971
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English
Publisher
Penguin Books
Released
1971
Format
Paperback
ISBN10
0140032290
ISBN13
9780140032291
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First published
1967
Original title
Rakovyj korpus
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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 into the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of Cancer Ward in 1968 confirmed his as Russia's greatest living novelist. Cancer Ward was not published openly in the Soviet Union until permission for its serialisation was granted over two decades later, in 1989.