Characters
Rusanov’s son who is a ‘soft lawyer’.
Who is Yury?
Aviette tells her father of this new political reality.
What is ‘the thaw’?
This is Dyomka’s mother’s profession and what it represents.
What is a guilty doctor?
Solzhenitsyn won this award in 1970.
What is the Nobel Prize?
This short story symbolizes literary invention.
What is “Apricot Jam”?
This young orderly does not take her job seriously.
Who is Nellya?
Oleg discovers that his fellow patients and the doctors know little about these.
What are the Gulags?
Kapa tries to do this when checking Pavel into the hospital.
What is bribery?
Solzhenitsyn was born in this year.
What is 1918?
This is Shulubin’s ideal political system.
What is ‘ethical socialism’?
This young woman has breast cancer.
Who is Asya?
This happens on the second anniversary of Stalin’s death.
What is no special mention in the press?
The tiger in the zoo with its ‘whiskers’ represents this man.
Who is Stalin?
This Soviet Premier personally sponsored One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Who is Khrushchov?
This short story relates an event during World War Two involving a spy.
What is “Incident at Kretchetovka Station”?
This young Communist has Meliblastoma.
Who is Vadim?
At the end, Oleg meets a polite and kind one of these.
What is the KGB?
These treatments represent Oleg’s dilemma.
What are hormone treatments?
Solzhenitsyn was deported from the USSR in this year.
What is 1974?
Proshka is discharged from the hospital with this message.
What is ‘inoperable tumour of the heart’?
This quiet patient has been in the hospital three years.
Who is Sibgatov?
This is the name given to reduction of Stalin’s influence.
What is ‘Destalinization’?
A former enemy of Rusanov’s has this new designation.
What is ‘rehabilitated’?
Solzhenitsyn’s epic about WW1.
What is August, 1914?
Ustinova, the doctor, is constantly doing this.
What is smoking?