One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
In 1961, he sent the manuscript of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" to Alexander Tvardovsky, poet and chief editor of "Novy Mir" (Новый Мир - "New World") literary magazine. It was published in edited form in 1962 with the explicit approval of Nikita Khrushchev. Following Khrushchev's fall from power, the political climate in the Soviet Union hardened and the "thaw" in literary censorship ended under Leonid Brezhnev.