Novy Mir
Sinyavsky became one of the leading literary critics of the "Novy Mir" magazine, at the time headed by Aleksandr Tvardovsky. In the early 1960s, "Novy Mir" was considered the most liberal legal publications in the Soviet Union and began leaning towards a dissident position. In November 1962, "Novy Mir" became famous for publishing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's groundbreaking "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", a novella about a prisoner of the Gulag. Sinyavsky, a protégé of Boris Pasternak, described the realities of Soviet life in short fiction stories which were often critical in nature. Sinyavsky published his novels in the West under the pseudonym Abram Tertz, derived from the name of a historical Russian Jewish gangster although Sinyavsky himself was not Jewish. Sinyavsky's works were naturally rejected for publication by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during a time of extreme censorship in the Soviet Union.