He sent the manuscript, still titled Щ-854, to the Moscow journal Novy Mir in the fall of 1961. He risked offering it for publication only some two years later, after Khrushchev’s vociferous attack on Stalin’s “cult of personality” at the Twenty-second Party Congress. In May 1959, when Solzhenitsyn was living in Ryazan, he finally sat down to write Щ-854 ( One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich).
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