Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
Leather Bound
(Easton Press Jan. 1, 1988)
, COLLECTOR'S EDITION
First published in 1962 by a provincial high school teacher and former gulag prisoner, this account of Stalin's forced labor camps shocked Russia and the world. It is said that Khrushchev wept when he read it, and personally advocated for it to be printed.