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
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Feb 17, 2008 7:58 pm
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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,"...
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Mar 31, 2008 6:28 pm
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I've been looking for this in the English-language press, but this is all I found so far. This was covered on at least one of the major Russian networks last...
Thanks to VB for posting that. Perhaps worth mentioning that the English bit is just an excerpt and in a pretty awful translation (not VM's fault). Their use...
The full text (and a good translation) gives a much better understanding of what the writer has actually said than has been possible from the abbreviated press...
Alex Klimoff
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Apr 6, 2008 2:26 am
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That's a whole lot better. And, incidentally, here are a couple of the early reviews of Saraskina's biography of AIS, which has its launch in Moscow on...
I agree the full text sounds better than the first version. But I'm still puzzled by the statements in the full version. 1) Why is it that a criticism of what...
Solzhenitsyn is responding,perhaps a bit heavy-handedly, to the widespread tendency of many in the Ukraine--and the West--to see the Great Famine of 1932-1933...
Mahoney, Daniel (Poli...
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Apr 11, 2008 3:30 pm
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Dan Mahoney is spot on. And believe me Daneejo, the criticism is not reserved just for the Soviet regime. However, I think those that are heavy-handed are...
I hadn't realized that there was such an intensity of anti-Russian feeling among Ukrainians, thanks for pointing that out. And it was a good point too about...
I really agree with Mohoney and with Solzhenitsyn. Considering how Solzhenitsyn has done so much to give dignity to the victims of the Soviet regime and was...
I was looking this up in Pearce and Thomas this week, and I found that his mother's parents were born in the Ukraine, but that doesn't mean they were ethnic...
Solzhenitsyn's maternal grandfather at least was Ukrainian. Shcherbak is usually a Ukrainian surname. Solzhenitsyn has mentioned his grandfather's Ukrainian...
Daneejo, There is such an intensity of anti-Russian feeling among SOME Ukrainians, mostly from Western Ukraine. In my opinion, and in my own experience,...
William, You make some good points, but also a few mistakes, in my opinion. I am at the airport in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and waiting to catch a long flight, so I...
It's obviously a sore subject to Solzhenitsyn and many Russians. From my own observations, though, very few in the West see the Great Famine as a Russian...
Slavabez, I don't think I disagree with you on any point. I was inclined to argue about the "cradle" of the Soviet Union but it's mostly pointless. I only...
Kolya has a good grasp of the situation, and I agree with verything that he says, except for the last comment about Russophobia. Russophobia is a very real...
William, Well said. You make some excellent and sober points that I wholeheartedly agree with. Personally, I am mad as hell with the "Cold Warriors" on both...
Vyacheslav, I do not deny that Russophobes exist. In my view, though, too many Russians are much too thin-skinned about it. Moreover, more than once I read of...
"In my opinion, there are more effective ways to counteract anti-Russian sentiment than to complain of Russophobia". There is a lot of truth in the above...
And Even Our Tears BY ARMAND MALOUMIAN [1] Translated by Edward Van Der Rhoer Originally published in Kontinent No. XX, 1979 (reprinted in Kontinent 4:...
Kolya, I generally agree about the Ameriphobia comment, because it does exist. But the US is the only true superpower left, and still the world's #1 economy,...
I realize this news item is moving off-topic a bit for our list, but it does bear at least tangentially on recent discussion here. In recent years, McCartney...
