One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Characters
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov received a ten-year sentence because he was captured by the German Army in 1942. Although he escaped from his captors, suspicious Soviet officers were convinced that he — and any other returning Soviet soldier — was a spy. As the novel begins, Shukhov has served seven years with three years supposedly left of his sentence. He worries, however, because the authorities always find an excuse to add another, longer prison term to anyone finishing his first sentence. Before the war Shuk hov was a simple agricultural worker on a kolkhoz (collective farm)....
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