Khrushchev approved the publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in the Soviet Union as an instrument for his de-Stalinization campaign, not as a fundamental critique of the Soviet system itself.
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“it was a kind of keep the system but get rid of the excesses and for that the denunciation of the camps that one could see in Solzhenitsyn's novels look like an important instrument that Khrushchev could use”
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