Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's novels about the Soviet Russian system of forced-labour camps, was published in the cautiously reform-minded journal Novy Mir.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1970 Nobel Prize-winner in Literature, who had more than once refused to surrender himself to state investigators) was expelled from the Soviet Union; treason charges followed.