Ten years after Ivan Denisovich

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Ten years have passed since Nobel Prize laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first novel, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, was published in the liberal Russian magazine Novy Mir; ten years in which Solzhenitsyn has plummeted from official favor and in which the brief liberalization of Soviet cencorship signaled by the novel's publication has been reversed. Zhores Medvedev traces in harrowing detail the celebrated novelist's developing encirclement - the machinations by which Solzhenitsyn was deprived of the Lenin Prize for One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, the forcible confiscation of his literary papers, the intrigues by which his second novel, Cancer Ward, was barred from publication, and the threats which induced the Writer's Union to expel him.