Which Soviet leader allowed the publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
Joseph Stalin
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Answer
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev approved the publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in 1962. The novel was an account of Stalinist repressions and marked the beginning of Solzhenitsyn's literary career.
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