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... conveys the vices of revolution and war and Ivan Denisovich is used to address the effects of placement in a labour camp under a dictatorial rule, such as under Stalin, the novels do contain a common thread. Both Garcia Marquez and Solzhenitsyn criticize how politically unstable societies cause character transformation through the development of their respective characters, Colonel Aureliano Buendia and Ivan Denisovich. Neither Colonel Aureliano Buendia nor Ivan Denisovich had major political involvement until unexpected circumstances plunged them into the realm of politics. The first of Colonel Aureliano Buendia's political sentiments expressed is a condemnation of fighting over an ideology: "...he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched." (Garcia Marquez 104) Colonel Aureliano Buendia was not developed as a revolutionary, yet upon exposure to political surroundings he became enveloped in politics and revolution. He was playing chess ...