HIS 102 Solzhenitsyn Paper Assignment
Solzhenitsyn
(1918-2008), at the time of his death, was still writing and working to oversee
the publication of his collected works, in thirty volumes). He was
clearly one of the most important Russian writers of the twentieth
century, and a towering intellectual and cultural figure in Russia;
there is no one even close to his stature alive today. Take a
moment and read his Autobiography that he wrote for his award of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Photo from 1994 courtesy Evstafiev.
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Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (in its entirety).
Answer the following question in a one-page paper:
Citing specific evidence from Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (not from the textbook), how was Ivan Denisovich able to resist the dehumanizing aspects
of camp routine?
Your paper must follow the following format:
- typed using a word processor
(font size 10 or 12 only)
- one-inch margins
- double-spaced
- page number citations for your
quoted evidence
- not to exceed one (1) page
- name, date and HIS 102 at
the top left
- must have a brief introduction
and conclusion (each not to exceed two sentences)
- You
may consider submitting drafts of your assignment to your instructor for
feedback before submitting the assignment for a grade. Please send some specific questions that you would like answered about
your draft. The questions can be general (Is my introduction clear?) or
specific (Is the phrase, "Chardin was jeweller," written correctly?).
You can send in multiple drafts (within reason) of an assignment before you submit for a grade.
- At times, you may be asked
to rewrite your essay before it is graded. This is done for your own benefit
and will result in an improved grade.
Before proceeding, you might wish to read
the short notes
on Solzhenitsyn and review the study questions
on One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Your assignment should be sent to your course
instructor following the directions
for submitting assignments.
Please take a moment to review
Charlie's History Writing Center for
specific information on the writing requirements for the assignments in the
course.
The Solzhenitsyn Paper is worth a maximum of 100 points.
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