Novy Mir
In 1986, Zalygin became editor-in-chief of the "Novy Mir" monthly, which, under him, began to play an important role in Mikhail Gorbachev’s politics of "glasnost’". In the first issue of "Novy Mir" of 1987, Platonov’s "The Foundation Pit" and D. Granin’s "Bison" were published. "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak (prepared and commented by V. Borisov and E. Pasternak), "1984" by George Orwell, "The Gulag Archipelago", as well as other works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn were published on the pages of "Novy Mir" for the first time in the USSR. "The Humble Cemetery" and "Stroybat" by Sergei Kaledin, "Odlyan, or the Air of Freedom" by Leonid Gabyshev, the journalistic pieces on the Chernobyl catastrophe by G. U. Medvedev, "Advances and Debts" by the economist N. P. Shmelev were also published there. During the years of perestroika, the struggle between "Novy Mir" and the censorship authorities did not go well for the monthly. Some parts of this struggle are described by A. Solzhenitsyn ("A grain between two millstones", part 4, "Novy Mir", 2003, No. 11) and Zalygin himself ("Notes that do not need a plot", "Oktyabr", 2003, No. 9-11). In 1991, the circulation of "Novy Mir" reached 2,700,000.