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Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is a prisoner ("zek") in the Soviet Gulag system, imprisoned on charges being a spy after being captured by the Germans and escaping, and sentenced to 10 years. At the time of the story, during winter, sometime during [[The Korean War]], Shukhov is serving out his sentence in a special camp in Siberia. His number is Щ-854<ref>the letter Щ is called "shcha", although the actual Russian pronounciation is closest to the Japanese "っしゃ" ("ssha")</ref> and he is part of squad 104. This book details [[Day in the Life|one day in his life]], as he struggles to live through another day.▼
| title = One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
| original title = Один день Ивана Денисовича
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| author = Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
| central theme = Life under oppression
| elevator pitch = A day in the life of an ordinary prisoner in a Soviet gulag in the early 1950s.
| genre = Historical fiction
| publication date = 1962
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▲Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is a prisoner ("zek") in the Soviet Gulag system, imprisoned on charges being a spy after being captured by the Germans and escaping, and sentenced to 10 years. At the time of the story, during winter, sometime during [[The Korean War]], Shukhov is serving out his sentence in a special camp in Siberia. His number is Щ-854<ref>the letter Щ is called "shcha", although the actual Russian
This book, written in 1962 by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] and based on his own experiences in the camps, was the first widely distributed account of Stalinist repression
You can read it in its entirety [http://www.davar.net/EXTRACTS/FICTION/ONE-DAY.HTM here.]
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: Those who squeal on their fellow zeks.
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** Some zeks who find themselves positions of power can invert this trope by using it for the benefit of their fellow zeks, like Tsezar, who works in the overseer's office and apparently helps cook the books to keep his work gang from being given the worst assignments.
* [[Corrupt Church]]: Shukov is rather scornful of religion due to experience with this trope.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Shukhov is just barely saved from getting sent to the hole during an inspection thanks to one of these.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: It's one day in the life of the zek Shukov, nothing more, nothing less.
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Tyurin.
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* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Senka. Being deaf in one ear didn't make him any less able to kick some ass, which [[Dirty Coward|Der]] nearly finds out first hand.
* [[Institutional Apparel]]: "They weigh nothing, the numbers ..."
** The lack of visible prisoner numbers or the lack of prominence they have on the prisoners is considered especially notable in-universe. The mess manager has a very tiny number on his non
* [[Jerkass]]: Practically everyone in the story, Shukhov included, is one to some extent, but the plot avoids [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]] because the actual villains are these minus any redeeming traits or sympathetic reasons. One can even make a case Alyosha is one, given his lack of sympathy for Shukhov's contempt of religion, which is born of utterly understandable motives.
** [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: Fetuykov is an asshole, but he makes a perfectly valid point to Bunoksky (who chews him out for fishing tobacco out of spittoons) that zeks have to do some incredibly sad and disgusting things in the name of survival.
* [[Kangaroo Court]]: Many people got imprisoned because the Soviet legal system is this [[Up to Eleven]].
** [[Truth in Television]]: Worse, since many of the fictional reasons were based on real ones.
* [[MacGyvering]]: Shukhov has a side business as a self
** And even what zeks ARE allowed to have reeked of this trope, as they have to make do with ropes instead of leather belts, and their shoes run the list of actual leather shoes to those made out of old tires.
* [[Magikarp Power]]: Shukhov notes Gopchik is young but is learning how to survive very quickly, and lampshades this trope when musing about well off he will be.
* [[The Captain]]: Bunovsky still acts like one, even though he's still a prisoner.
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* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Some of the guards aren't regarded as really nasty or corrupt, like the Tartar, they are just doing their jobs, and while their jobs encourage them to be assholes, the ones who don't take that excuse and run with it and merely exercise the bare minimum of authority are considered this by the zeks.
* [[True Art]]: Tzesar and another inmate discuss this in regards to [[Sergei Eisenstein]]. Shukov doesn't care.
* [[Vendor Trash]]: Subverted. Shukhov takes a broken piece of a saw blade, despite it's apparent worthlessness, under the knowledge that if properly honed into a knife, it would be worth
* [[What an Idiot!]]: The zeks take out some rage in this manner on some Moldavian who fell asleep on the worksite and wasted their time holding up the prisoner count on the way back.
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