... too. The voters were to ... As proxy than populas to check our bill of rights based on declaration of independance. So first we cast by ballot than by...
... idea ... declaration ... casting a ballot and ... During the form of indepedance we instituted indentured was used until the public debt uis paid the...
Move over Tolstoy: detective tales of Tsarist era take Russia by storm Author who spotted a gap in the market sells millions of novels to country's emerging...
Fred Thompson, a Republican candidate for President, said on Sept 7 ""You know, you look back over our history, and it doesn't take you long to realize that...
Also not forgetting, as the media frequently does, that the USSR took half of Poland in league with Hitler, to "kick off" the Euro portion of WW2. And...
Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, argued that the most important characteristic of a market economy was that it permitted a rapid growth in productive abilities...
I'm sure we've all encountered people who say they don't read Solzhenitsyn because he's too depressing. Obviously the facts of the Gulag and the Soviet system...
[image: The New York Times] <http://www.nytimes.com/> ... September 23, 2007 Welcome or Not, Orthodoxy Is Back in Russia's Public Schools Sergei Kivrin for...
One thing I've known for a while is Solzhenitsyn's fiction uses narration to tell you what the character in focus is thinking, so that the 'narrator' in any...
Rubin in First Circle jokes about an unrecognized Pushkin in the MVD who gives poetic names to concentration camps. Since every camp name aways ends in -lag...
I'd like to read this article. If any of our academics have access to the journal *Human Rights Quarterly,* and wouldn't feel too morally compromised by...
Nice to see AIS invoked in a less-than-utterly-serious context. In the "Full Metal Cynic" blog: Non redacted news bits/links *Six*: Lindsay Lohan spends 84...
I'm not a fan of Figes, the British historian, but his latest work looks like a timely book. This is how the New York Times ends their review of it: /// "The...
The Russian website NEWSru.com of December 9, 2007 reports that Solzhenitsyn speaks in an interview featured in the "News of the Week" [Vesti nedeli] program...
Alexis Klimoff
klimoff@...
Dec 9, 2007 7:43 pm
1048
This seems to be more than, the already very interesting edition of Gulag that came out this September (Ekaterinburg: U-faktoriya, 2007, ISBN...
Politics ... Dec 9 2007 1:30PMRussia regains global influence, but is far from ideal morally - Solzhenitsyn PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY. Dec 9 (Interfax) - Even...
It's the great man's birthday today. What a talent the Creator hurled into Kislovodsk that day. December 11 is also a date that more Americans ought to...
From the Vermont Public Radio website <http://vpr.net/episode/42353/>. The commentator, Paul Richardson, is publisher of *Russian Life *magazine, which has...
Thank you Steve for Richardson's post as well as the comment by Post. Perhaps it can be claimed that Richardson exaggerated the negatives of Putin's Russia,...
I think Post's response is absolutely disgraceful and shows little understanding of history or of Solzhenitsyn. Forgiving just about anything so long as the...
Putin's record on coming to terms with the Soviet past has indeed been very mixed. As Mrs. Solzhenitsyn pointed out at the International Solzhenitsyn...
Mahoney, Daniel (Poli...
dmahoney@...
Dec 13, 2007 3:09 pm
1055
Moscow News December 13, 2007 Solzhenitsyn Turns 89 By Kirill Bessonov Alexander Solzhenitsyn turned 89 on Tuesday, December 11. Despite of his years, the...
Alex Klimoff
klimoff@...
Dec 14, 2007 4:48 pm
1056
Any ideas why the Moscow news article calls Saraskina's upcoming biography the first? Do they mean the first to be published in Russia? The first to be...
I think it's the first "authorized" biography, as Michael Scammell's biography wasn't given that title. Personally, I've always been a little suspect of...
