One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Russia has a lowest ever temperature of –44ºC, and an average of 104 days a year above 0ºC and a yearly average of 261 days below 0 ºC. It is the second coldest continent in the world only behind Antarctica; it snows on average 111 days of the year. It is dark, gloomy, freezing and miserable in the winter, and in the summer, cold, dark, and gloomy. Camps for political prisoners seemed even colder, especially with no real heating …

…a story of courage and hope despite the conditions and odds. It is a guide to the inside of the lives of men kept captive as prisoners and how they had to live during Stalin’s reign. It shows how despite the harsh and cruel treatment endured by the prisoners there can still be hope and something better to look forward to, showing that life does go on no matter what’s thrown at it.