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...
Mahoney, Daniel (Poli...
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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,...
How many people find the ending of Cancer Ward disappointing, that Oleg doesn't persist in looking up Vega but goes away? Do you think Vega was disappointed...
In the seventies, apart from Burg & Feifer, you are most likely to have seen Giovanni Grazzini, Solzhenitsyn or Hans Bjorkegren, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A...
Mike Nicholson
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Jan 23, 2007 5:49 am
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Has AIS made any comment about the Litvinenko assassination? He is the critic of Russian govt killed by radioactive poisoning in England, and press reports I...
If anyone personnally knows Mr. Solzenitzsyn, please ask him for me if circa 1971, he was in Moscow one day the winter week that the Italian Communist Party...
Steve, Ignat prefaced his remarks And so the best thing about this Reader is that itprovides an opportunity for people to meet the "undiscovered" Solzhenitsyn ...
I think it is fair to say that wečll be seeing more Solzhenitsyn in English (I know of one publisher who is strongly committed to that prospect). It really is...
Mahoney, Daniel
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Mar 10, 2007 9:04 pm
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Thanks Dan for those encouraging words. I found that TLS review, "Blue Collar Solzhenitsyn <http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25341-2617318,00.html> " ...
Allow me to supplement the (welcome) posting by "okiedave" of Zinik's review in TLS of The Solzhenitsyn Reader. Dan Mahoney has written a reply that is posted...
Thanks, Okiedave for putting the link to the TLS review. Otherwise I had no idea what TLS meant. Well, one thing in that review really bugs me: "... the tragic...
It may not be new, but its interesting at least to see in Zinik's "review" and the positive responses to it a replay of all the old recycled posturings dating...
... Dan, I see that frustration a lot in AIS' western readers. I catch myself wondering at times too. However, two things come to mind. First, it is a logical...
I'd like to comment briefly on the posting by Norm Murdock concerning the possible reasons for Solzhenitsyn's lack of public criticism of Putin. Norm suggests...
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Mar 13, 2007 7:29 pm
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Looking through the archives I see there's been a fair amount of discussion concerning AIS's stance toward Putin. I agree it is futile to speculate about his...
Thank you, Alex, for this point of view. I am indeed suffering under information from the popular press, and do not have first-hand experience. Nevertheless, I...
... Maybe there is still quite a bit more freedom than in Soviet days. But the recent death or injury of several critics of Putin (Litvininov poisoned with...
The working assumption in your question, daneejo, is that it is clearly the Putin regime that is murdering its opponents. But this precise point is much...
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Mar 15, 2007 9:53 pm
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Many things about Solzhenitsyn become clearer after reading what Father Alexander Schmemann wrote about him in his journals. Fr. Schmemann was an admirer of...
