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About the product The story «Cancer Ward» was conceived by Solzhenitsyn in the summer of 1954 in Tashkent, where, after exile, he was treated in an oncological dispensary. Memories of this formed the basis of the story. Its heroes are patients of the «cancer corps». Among them are people of all social strata, ages from all over the vast country. Their fates reflected the state of Soviet society when, struck by the lawlessness of the authorities, as a terrible disease, it received hope for healing. The position of the author in the work was sharply at odds with the official ideology, so the writer was able to publish it only abroad. At home, the story was first published in 1990. …
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