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With the banishment, Solzhenitsyn's remarkable career as a writer in Soviet Russia came full circle. It had begun with the official publication in 1962 of his concentration camp novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that Pravda hailed as a masterpiece. Nikita Khrushchev was, in a way, his patron; he had encouraged the publication of One Day as part of his own effort to discredit Stalin. But once Khrushchev himself was deposed, there followed for Solzhenitsyn a decade of increasingly dramatic confrontations with the authorities. His subsequent novels were banned, and he was regularly excoriated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Solzhenitsyn: An Artist Becomes an | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...behavior at the investigation-but how convenient it is now to have him join the general chorus." The reliability of Vitkevich's belated accusations appeared questionable. Experts noted that handwritten notations were never permitted on the record of a prisoner's interrogations. Moreover, Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev ordered the destruction of the dossiers of all rehabilitated prisoners in the early 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: A Fortress of Newsprint | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

Kennedy disregarded this advice, and two years later Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was warning--in an October 23, 1963 letter--that there might be "catastrophic consequences for world peace...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: It Won't Rewrite History | 2/9/1974 | See Source »

Private correspondence between President Kennedy and Soviet Party Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis shows that Khrushchev vehemently challenged the U.S. quarantine, warning of "catastrophic consequences for world peace...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: JFK Library Documents Illuminate Brinksmanship | 2/7/1974 | See Source »

During the 1950s Bohlen served four years as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, reporting on the rise and fall of Premier Georgy Malenkov, the ascendancy of Nikita Khrushchev, the Suez crisis and the Hungarian revolution. Khrushchev apparently loved to trade quips with him. At a diplomatic party, the Russian dictator once remarked to Bohlen that Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgy Zhukov was putting away the refreshments "as if he had starved for a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: The Ambassador | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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