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Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's startling book led, almost 30 years later, to Glasnost, Perestroika, and the "Land of the Wall". One Day in the life span of Ivan Denisovich brilliantly portrays an individual day, any day, in the life of an individual Russian soldier who was simply captured by the Germans in 1945 and who managed to escape a couple of days later. Along with millions of others, this soldier was charged with some sort of political criminal offenses, and since it was much easier to confess than deny it and expire, Ivan Denisovich "confessed" to "high treason" and received a word of 10 years in a Siberian labor camp. <[>In 1962, the Soviet literary publication Novy Mir published a short book by an mysterious writer named Solzhenitsyn. Within 24 hours, all 95,000 copies of the publication containing this storyline were sold out. Within weekly, Solzhenitsyn was no more an obscure math teacher, but an international super star. Publication of the book split the Communist hierarchy, and it was Premier Khrushchev himself who browse the book and in person allowed its publication.
