This isn't *directly* AIS-related, but Taylor evokes landscapes and ambiences similar to some of those that Solzhenitsyn writes about. The essay inflamed my...
Not related to Solzhenitsyn, but I want to mention that when I found out that the brave journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow I was hit by...
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Congratulations to Ed Ericson and Daniel Mahoney on the publication of their new book, available on amazon.com at http://tinyurl.com/ygtxzg Will this reception...
Many thanks,Steve. If list members are interested in attending the book launch and reception theyıll need to contact Erica Ford of ISI at eford@.... As...
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I'm doing a project on Solzhenitsyn; about his political beliefs and his life in the gulags. I have to make a lecture and fun activities to teach a class. Any...
I have to make a lecture and fun activities to ... Some of the fun activities could involve having all the kids gather their cellphones and ipods into a pile...
As Norm not-so-gently suggested, Solzhenitsyn's stuff doesn't necessarily lwend itself to *fun* activities! But there is plenty of good first person narrative...
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I was fortunate enough to attend the reception to launch Ed Ericson and Dan Mahoney's new book, "The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential 194 - 2005", held...
Dear Steve, I would like to read Ignat's remarks, but not at the cost of handing my personal information over to Yahoo. Is there any way you could send them as...
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Nov 10, 2006 3:23 pm
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Hey does anyone have a basic list of Solzhenitsyn's beliefs? I know he was against Stalin and he's against a lot of modern elements in the Western world, but...
One way to respond is to say that political beliefs are NOT in the forefront of Solzhenitsyn's mind. The subject is addressed in a very articulate way by the...
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Nov 13, 2006 12:41 am
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Not that it mattered in those times as a rational basis for arrest and imprisonment, but do the arrest records and original WWII-era "case" files against AS...
*Three Volumes of the Thirty-Volume Edition by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Published* 16.11.2006 The publishing house Vremya has released three volumes of the ...
Our guy slips in this year's "Kommersant" ranking of the "Russian Elite". From #28 last year, he registered only at #65 in 2006. For whatever it's worth. ...
I just got my copy of the Solzhenitsyn reader last week. The uncut version of Volodin's phone call was a profound shock. My initial reaction is the censored...
A crucial point that must be borne in mind in approaching the "uncut" version of "First Circle" is that it is based on a real episode. See the memoirs of Lev...
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Jan 17, 2007 4:24 pm
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It seems to me that the 96 chapter version of "First Circle" has the great merit of highlighting precisely what is at stake in the struggle to maintain one's...
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Jan 17, 2007 6:15 pm
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Thanks for your responses. I suppose I am getting used to the idea -- I can agree with Mahoney's comment that treason would be justified against the Soviet...
... If you look closely at the text of Ch. 1 of "First Circle" (AIS "Reader," p. 109), you will see that Volodin speaks of the transfer of "important ...
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Jan 17, 2007 10:11 pm
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Interesting -- thanks for the tidbit about Koval. The statement about information on the production of the atom bomb being different than the secret of the...
2007-01-18 13:06:00 Solzhenitsyn mother's grave desecrated in Stavropol territory Stavropol, January 18, Interfax - The tombstone of the mother of the famous ...
I am sorry to ask, hate to be annoyingly repetitive. But this is of intense interest to me, given that AIS' stature as martyr and conscience of the USSR is...
Dear Norm, Don't know whether you're a Russian reader. Trouble is, the answer is a whole seminar-full, and much of the stuff your impulse would take you to is...
Mike Nicholson
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Jan 19, 2007 6:01 pm
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Which biographies of AIS do you all recommend? I have Thomas "A century in his life", which I enjoy, but I wonder about the objectivity of some of his...
Dear Mike, thanks for your kind reply. I'm not a Russian reader, unfortunately, for purposes of this endeavor. Would that someone, sooner rather than later,...
