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Rarely does a writer of serious literature become a newsmaker recognized around the globe. This Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did, and at a single stroke. In 1962 his taboo-shattering One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in Moscow. This short work of fiction by a previously unknown provincial schoolteacher described life in a Soviet concentration camp, which the author knew from bitter experience. Citizens could glimpse for themselves a secretive and dehumanizing world the existence of which had been officially denied for decades. And, wonder of wonders, the text was allowed into print by no less a figure than the number-one man in the Soviet government, Nikita Khrushchev himself. http://www.takimag.com/2016/