The shocking inside story of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's persecution in the Soviet Union, which began with the appearance of his novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch in 1963 and culminated in his exile from his native land in the late fall of 1973.

Translation of Desi︠a︡tʹ let posle "Odnogo dni︠a︡ Ivana Denisovicha." "Solzhenitsyn's open letter to the fourth Soviet Writers' Congress": p. 197-202.

1. Solidarity -- 2. Novy Mir, a Literary Miracle, and the Party -- 3. The Nomination of Ivan Denisovich for the Lenin Prize -- 4. The Lenin Prize Committee makes its Selection -- 5. The First Circle -- 6. The Confiscation of the First Circle and Solzhenitsyn's Papers -- 7. Circumstances - Known and Unknown - behind the Confiscation -- 8. Solzhenitsyn and Academician P.L. Kapitsa -- 9. What is to be done with Disobedient Talent? -- 10. The Appeal to the Fourth Writers' Congress -- 11. Cancer Ward in Samizdat and the Novy Mir -- 12. The Black Market in Russian Literature -- 13. Who Profits from the Literary Black Market? -- 14. The Open Campaign Against Solzhenitsyn Begins -- 15. the Publication of Cancer Ward and The First Circle abroad in the Autumn of 1968 -- 16. The Pseudo-Solzhenitsyn and "Solzhenitser" -- 17. Expulsion of Solzhenitsyn from the Soviet Writers' Union -- 18. An Alibi for One of the Accusations -- 19. The Break-up of the Novy Mir Editorial Board -- 20. The Difficult Summer of 1970 -- 21. The Nobel Prize for Literature -- 22. Where will the Nobel Prize be Presented? -- 23. Persecution of Friends and a New Wave of Criticism -- 24. A New Novel - August 1914 -- 25. The Death of Alexander Tvardovsky -- 26. Literaturnaya Gazeta launches an "International" Campaign -- 27. The Cancellation of the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Moscow -- 28. Who calls the tune and who plays the music? -- 29. The Nobel Lecture -- 30. Ten Years -- Appendix: Solzhenitsyn's Open letter to the Fourth Soviet Writers' Congress.