![]() ![]() From the tribunal of the plenum, First Secretary Khrushchev gave the novella his full-throated endorsement. Thousands of copies of the issue of Novyi mir that featured Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s groundbreaking novella on everyday life in the Stalinist Gulag, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, had been rushed, hot off the presses, to the Kremlin bookstalls. Alongside the red book of materials for the Central Committee’s discussion was the light blue cover of Novyi mir, the Soviet journal that most enthusiastically supported Nikita Khrushchev’s policy of de-Stalinization expounded at the 20th and 22nd Party Congresses. ![]() A surprise was waiting for them in the bookstalls set up in the Kremlin for the delegates. On 19 November 1962, high-ranking party officials flocked to the Kremlin to attend a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (CC CPSU) on the subject of economic development. ![]()
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