A Brief Look at Mikhail Prokhorov

The novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, follows the life of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a Stalinist labor camp prisoner of the Soviet Union. The story only spends one day in Shukovs life in the camp, but throughout this one day, Shukovs struggles and hardships in the camp are shown. This day is filled with his daily struggles and chores, but to him, it ends up being a good day. Throughout the novel many themes are shown. One major theme, in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, is the battle for humanity and dignity.

Artist Leonid Afremov was born on July 12, 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus. He is a Russian-Israeli known for using palette knives to spread oil paint across the canvas. Growing up his parents noticed at a young age that he was gifted in art. In college, Afremov took as many classes as he could that had to do with the subject of art. He also took many private lessons from local famous artist. He became more knowledgeable about many artist such as Picasso, Monet, Dali, and etc. Afremov learned about many art movements. One of the movements that caught his attention was the 19th century French Impressionism. The French Impressionism is based less on detail but driven more by color and brush strokes. He hardly shows his work in galleries

On a day to day bases, men and women in prison or jail are dehumanized and terrorized by their superiors or even their inmates in the Criminal Justice System. The inmates that are in this situation are usually physically, emotionally, and mentally abused, they are often deprived of meals and are belittled. The inmates in this situation have no other choice but adapt to their best ability of the harsh situation they are founded in or be broken and taken over by the system they are forced to be a part of. Is it true that a person in difficult situations needs to be indifferent of their past because being nostalgic can only hurt them? Or does the harsh situation they become a custom to make it easier to forget their past life?. Solzhenitsyn uses Shukhov’s indifferent attitude towards his past to illustrate that a person cannot be nostalgic because it can lead to one’s self-destruction.

After the Second World War ended, when Canada and her Allies were still celebrating victory over Germany, a young Russian cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa with secret papers stuffed under his shirt and headed straight for the offices of a city newspaper. His unprecedented action would awaken the people of North America to the magnitude and the danger of Soviet espionage and change the course of the twentieth century. Gouzenko was the beginning of the Cold War for public opinion and he did play a role in Canada’s involvement in the war, however, Canada became directly involved in the Cold War due to communist fears, nuclear choices, and ties to a superpower.

The author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn throughout the book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich brings up the question of how to make life meaningful, in this case, in the darkest circumstances. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, the main character, lives a normal day in his life of suffering prisoner to a gulag camp. The book offers interpretations that leads to answers to the central question mentioned previously. Answers vary from making meaning in life by being unique and standing out as an individual, meeting people in which to bond and live with, and coming to terms with one's circumstances in life. This would affect a reader’s understanding of the work as a whole by putting the whole situation in a new view in which one can truly see the struggle

The FBI really went through a lot to catch these two cyber criminals Vasiliy Gorshkov and Alexey Ivanov by staging a fake job interview for the two cyber criminals too come to. Depending on who’s looking at the situation some will say that the FBI lied but it wasn’t necessarily wrong because no one made the two men come for the interview and then start showing and telling everything they know or have done before as far as committing crimes go. On the other hand some will say the FBI was wrong because they lured the men there in deceit and then downloaded evidence of their crimes from Russian computers. It seems to me the FBI had most likely been building a case against the two men for some time, and it was now time to put their plan in action to catch the criminals.

The book I chose to do my book report on is "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". The book is about the most forceful indictments of political oppression in the Stalin era Soviet Union. It is a captiving story about the life in a Siberian labor camp, related to the point of view of Ivan Denisovich, a prisoner. It takes place in a span of one day, "from dawn till dusk" (pg. 111) . This book also describes his struggles and emotional stress that he must going through.

Boris Godunov started by being appointed by Ivan IV as one of the two guardians for regents. After his sister’s wedding to Feodor I, Godunov is legitimized as regent for Feodor I. Then, after Feodor’s death in 1598 Godunov is elected unanimously by the land assembly. During his reign he exiles an illegitimate son of Ivan IV’s, Dimitri, to prevent rebellion. Later on in 1591, Dimitri dies at age seven. Godunov is rumored to have killed Dimitri. The lands that were lost to Sweden in 1583 (the Livonian War) are recovered under his rule. Godunov increases the Russian presence in the conquered Siberia. Godunov also introduces a new act to strengthen rural stability. It denied the peasants any right of transferring their labor from one landowner

The most common fact from all these photos is that people are willing to protect child and woman in prior. One of the most interesting pictures to me is Sergey Ponomarev’s photo. In the photo, the man tries to protect his child from police beatings and tear gas at the border crossing in Horgos, Serbia. The man might be injured in the accident in respect that his face is bleeding. Even though he is not able to open his eyes due to the blood, he is not releasing his arm from his child but rather holding the child’s head and leg.

Malenkov’s post was then given to Bulganin who had little influence. Khrushchev had become the most important figure within the collective leadership. (A Country Study)

When Nikita Khrushchev seized control over the Soviet Union he kicked off what is known as the “Thaw” began. This period in time when citizens were forced into labor camps where millions of people were sent for crimes against the country that included practicing certain religions, having communications with foreign persons, and talking out contrary to the government. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was a controversial short novel published in 1962 that was fiction, but based in reality about the “gulag” (Solzhenitsyn PG#) prison system that Joseph Stalin, the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1952. During Stalin's rule of fear, millions were arrested and shipped off to gulags. One Day in the Life of Ivan

The period of Dmitry Medvedev’s presidency in 2008–2012, that is, the duumvirate of Dmitry Medvedev as president and Vladimir Putin as prime minister, is usually referred to in Russian media astandemocratia, or “tandemocracy”. Now, two years after Putin’s comeback as president, how would you describe the experience of tandemocracy for the Russian political

Malenkov was the successor to the infamous Joseph Stalin’s communist party reign. Stalin died in March of 1953 and Georgi Malenkov took control of the Soviet Union just a day later. Malenkov only ruled for three months until a political coalition was formed to overthrow him, and Nikita Khrushchev. This short reign expressed the distaste that the Russian government had for reform, since Malenkov was rumoured to be a reformist attempting to modernize Russia away from brutal communist dictatorships, he was taken out of power. He was the first of many Russian leaders to attempt humane reform for his country. This plays into current leadership in the sense that Libya overthrew their government recently to try and establish peace among the country,

The film, Doctor Zhivago, illustrates the story of a young man named Yuri Zhivago, who was adopted by a Russian family. Yuri's half-brother was General Yevgraf Andreyevich, a highly ranked officer who at the beginning of the film was searching for Yuri's and Lara's daughter. Yuri Zhivago, who had aspired to become a doctor, finally caught up with his family, including his half-sister Tonya. While this was occurring, Lara, (Yuri's later acquaintance,) was becoming abused by a family friend named Komarofsky. Later that night, Lara's fiancé, Pasha, was severely injured in a street demonstration. Yuri had witnessed the entire event from the top of his balcony. After Komarofsky abused Lara for getting married,

The last son of Fyodor Karamazov was a bastard, born from the town’s holy fool. Although it is not entirely known whether Fyodor was the true father of Smerdyakov, he was widely believed to be so. Smerdyakov was raised by Gregory and his wife after his mother died during childbirth and later worked as Fyodor’s personal cook. As a child, Smerdyakov “loved to hang cats and then bury them with great ceremony” (Dostoevsky, 1981). As an adult, he was unsociable, arrogant, and despised everyone. Smerdyakov had no use for religion and suffered from epilepsy from an early age. Despite all of these things, Fyodor considered Smerdyakov to be a completely honest man, whilst the townspeople considered him to be a fool like his mother.