Один день Ивана Денисовича
Tvardovsky fought hard to maintain the traditional independence "Novy Mir" had, even against official disapproval. During his editorship, the magazine published Ilya Ehrenburg's "Thaw" in 1954, "The Vologda Wedding" by Alexander Yashin in 1962, and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1962. During those years, the "Oktyabr" magazine, with the editor in chief Vsevolod Kochetov, was the pro-Soviet, anti-Western and anti-liberal counterpart of Tvardovsky's "Novy Mir".