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Cancer Ward (Paperback)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Translated by Nicholas Bethell, David Burg
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R706
Discovery Miles 7 060
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The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet
cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature,
"Cancer Ward" is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing
terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet
police state.
"Cancer Ward" examines the relationship of a group of people in
the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years
after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances and
then reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they
represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian
characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character,
Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on
his release from a labor camp, and later recovered.
The Albanian Operation, carried out by British and American secret
services from 1949 to 1953, was one of the first Western attempts
to subvert a country behind the Iron Curtain. The British liaison
officer for the project in Washington was Kim Philby, a Soviet
double agent who sabotaged the whole venture. In all, about 300
agents and civilians are thought to have been killed in the
disastrous operation. The story was first pieced together by
Nicholas Bethell in his 1984 book The Great Betrayal: The Untold
Story of Kim Philby's Biggest Coup, based on interviews and
conversations with British and American officials and Albanian
fighters who infiltrated the Stalinist Albanian regime and escaped
alive. The present work presents the interviews throws new light on
what actually took place.
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