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...current ferment is reminiscent of the early 1960s, when Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev allowed the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first detailed description of life in ! the Soviet Gulag. That thaw gradually congealed after Khrushchev's ouster. It remains to be seen how long Gorbachev will leave Soviet culture open to the winds of free inquiry...
Recalling the trauma of emerging from obscurity to celebrity in 1962 when his novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Oak and the Calf: "For 15 years I had lurked discreetly in the depths - the camps, exile, underground - never showing myself, and now I had risen to the surface and sudden fame." He concluded...
Shortly after the 1962 release of his first work, the prison-camp novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn composed a prayer-poem, which became part of the body of work honored by the Templeton Foundation. Solzhenitsyn recalled last week, "I was being subjected to increasing pressure and harassment. At this time I experienced a feeling that I had support-supernatural support. I wrote [the prayer] in the consciousness of the various outcomes that could be called my fate: maybe this is the last moment. Maybe this is it." But it was only the beginning...
...added, prose and politics entered the pages of samizdat, but the Soviet authorities cracked down after the 1962 publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," a novel that explores life in a Soviet labor camp. Despite the crackdown, samizdat became increasingly political during the '70s, Garbanevskaya said...
This memoir ranges over the years of his greatest productivity and fame, beginning in 1962 with the publication of his concentration camp novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich on Khrushchev's orders, and ending with his deportation from the Soviet Union in 1974. Solzhenitsyn, whose creative energies seem to flourish in adversity, was in top form when he wrote The Oak during the years 1967-73; only the climactic chapter, footnotes and appendixes have been added in exile. The force of his narrative, the drama of unfolding historical events and the density of supporting detail combine...