Word: solzhenitsin
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...group of writers was exempted from Pravda's tirade. They were the authors who served Khrushchev's destalinization campaign. All the rage in Moscow last week was an autobiographical short novel by a previously unknown writer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsin, 44, a provincial teacher who spent eight years in an Arctic slave labor camp after...
...Solzhenitsin's stark account, the first detailed description of Stalin's prison camps ever published in Russia, sold 40,000 copies on newsstands and a second printing of 100,000 was ordered. Glowing reviews, which compared the author to Tolstoy, appeared simultaneously in several newspapers, and it was reported that Khrushchev himself had read the story before publication and cleared...
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