The book's publication caused such an ideological controversy that it contributed to Khruschev's fall from the Communist leadership. Through the persistence of Alexander Tvardovsky, the editor of the liberal journal, Novy Mir, the manuscript was published in 1962 with Khruschev's approval. In 1959, he composed Shch-854, the first version of what was to become One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. With his newfound freedom, Solzhenitsyn faced a different world than he previously knew-his wife had remarried while he was in prison-and the Soviet Union was undergoing political transition. In 1956, after Khruschev's denunciation speeches against Stalin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's sentence was finally annulled.
Like Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn was also a bricklayer in the labor camps. Solzhenitsyn, in many ways, based the experiences of his protagonist, Ivan Denisovich, on his own prison experiences. But ironically, it was his imprisonment that became the inspiration for his novel about a day in the life of an uneducated peasant serving in a labor camp. Even during high school, Solzhenitsyn planned on writing an epic novel about the Revolution. His childhood was inevitably marked by the political upheavals of the time. Solzhenitsyn was given an eight-year sentence.Īlexander Solzhenitsyn was a child of both the Revolution (1917) and the ensuing Civil War in the Soviet Union. But in 1945, he was arrested unexpectedly for writing anti-Stalinist comments in a letter to a friend. There, he served bravely, earning several medals and a promotion to captain. Soon after his graduation in 1941, the Soviet Union was drawn into World War II, and Solzhenitsyn was conscripted into the army. In 1940, Solzhenitsyn married his high school sweetheart, Natalya Reshetvskaya. But his desire to be a writer drove him to take literature classes in Moscow while he pursued his studies in the Sciences.
He decided to stay nearby at Rostov University, where he studied Mathematics and Physics. Growing up in the industrial city of Rostov with his mother, Solzhenitsyn was a gifted student, but his mother's failing health and a lack of money dashed his hopes of attending a university in Moscow. Solzhenitsyn's father died in a hunting accident six months before his birth. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Author/ContextĪlexander (Sanya) Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, southern Russia, on December 11th, 1918.
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