Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward"

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"This study will provide a review of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel "Cancer Ward". The review will consider the information and knowledge conveyed in the book, the major issues and themes in the book, and what the two main characters (Kostoglotov the protagonist and Rusanov the antagonist) lived by, or what sustained them in life.

In the author's letter to the Fourth Congress of Soviet writers, which is included in the Bantam edition, he argues for the end to Soviet censorship. It is ironic that the letter was written arguing for the end to official delays in publishing this novel, for Cancer Ward is certainly one of the least overtly politically threatening of his works. It certainly can be interpreted as a veiled indictment of the oppression of the totalitarian Soviet system, but at least on the surface it is far ... "

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