Three further stories by him were published during 1963 and a fourth in 1966. , to Aleksandr Tvardovsky, the poet and editor of Novy Mir ( New World), a literary journal it was published, on the final decision of Khrushchev himself, in the November 1962 edition of Novy Mir, which sold out immediately. He settled near Ryazan and taught in a secondary school. Released in 1953, on Stalin's death, Solzhenitsyn had to remain in exile for three years although his wife was allowed to join him, before returning to Russia. The particular camp described in his book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was in the region of Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan. For the next eight years he was in labor camps, at first in 'general' camps along with common criminals in the Arctic and later in Beria's 'special' camps for long-term prisoners. In early 1945 he was arrested in an East Prussian village and charged with making derogatory remarks about Stalin. He served continuously at the front as a gunner and artillery officer, was twice decorated, commanded his battery, and reached the rank of captain. After graduating at Rostov University in mathematics-he took a correspondence course in literature simultaneously-he was called up for the army. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born at Kislovodsk in 1918.
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