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...
Michael, I'm sorry to hear what happened to your copy of my book. For what it's worth, I bought up some remaindered copies of the UK edition, so you can have...
ms474@...
Dec 21, 2007 7:24 am
1059
I've seen this quote on several travel sites on the Web but I can't place it. Where did AIS write this? "Own only what you can carry with you…Let your memory...
Pryanchikov's successful prediction in First Circle intrigues me. I'm curious at what point in the evolution of the novel did Solzhenitsyn put this in the...
A thoughtful note from the "Veritas ex Nihilo" blog... Steve ... The Captive Mind<http://veritasexnihilo.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/the-captive-mind/> January ...
Recently I've acquired an anthology of Francis Bacon's essays, which includes the "New Organon" essay that Shulubin quotes from in his speech on ethical...
Daneejo, When Bacon writes the following: "The idols of the marketplace are the errors which result from the communication and association of men with each...
Daneejo, When Bacon writes the following: "The idols of the marketplace are the errors which result from the communication and association of men with each...
... I think Bacon would view advertising slogans, like political propaganda, as idols of the theater. Idols of the theater are things that are explicitly...
From the City Journal website, a review of Yegor Gaidar's new book. [image: City Journal Home.] <http://www.city-journal.org/index.html> *Guy Sorman* Decline...
... And if, in the depths of your hearts, you feel the same call to the priesthood or consecrated life, do not be afraid to follow Christ on the royal road of...
I recently found in our local library a collection of essays on AIS (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical essays and documentary materials, eds Dunlop, Haugh and...
... Teddy bears are cuddly, but not romantic/erotic cuddling, I think. Maybe thats my own idiosyncracy. ... I like it. I chuckled out loud when I read this....
Re Mike Nicholson's comment on translation (with apologies to an old music hall favourite): It's the same the whole world over Ain't it all a bleedin' shame, ...
Michael Scammell
ms474@...
Feb 17, 2008 7:58 pm
1073
My body? Ah, if I could choose, I would to ashes it reduce, And let the merry breezes blow My dust to where some fading flowers grow. Perhaps some fading...
From today's Daily Telegraph ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/03/31/do3104.xml ): Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: the true story By...
Just this brief reaction to the A.N.Wilson piece: A.N.Wilson's heart may be in the right place, and he is of course right about the power of "First Circle,"...
