NMLP P-001006 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Cancer Ward (Rakovy korpus)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · The Bodley Head (London) / Dial Press (New York) · 1968-1969

True first English is The Bodley Head UK issue (Part I 1968, Part II 1969), translated by Bethell and Burg, preceding the US Dial Press edition. These were unauthorized; Russian-language editions circulated in the West in 1968 before any authorized release, and excerpts appeared in the Times Literary Supplement in April 1968.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-001006 for "Cancer Ward (Rakovy korpus)" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-001006, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).