'Lively' and Other Stories by Boris Mozhaev & A Memoir by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Political Class Dismissed (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you — you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. Everything you [...]
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A message from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand-fold in the future.
Edward Lucas (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... the significance of 1989 is to remember what it was a revolution against. The new edition of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s epic novel, “In the First Circle” (Harper Perennial, $18), captures better than any other work of fiction the quintessence of communist rule at its Stalinist peak: all-pervasive, paranoid, oppressive, incompetent, lethal. By 1989 that system had become...
Constantly Furious (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
"We are the best in the world! We are the best in the world! "We have beaten Russia 116-112 in boxing!! It is completely unbelievable! We have beaten Russia! "Russia, birthplace of giants. "Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Gagarin, Maria Sharapova, Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anna Kournikova, --- we have beaten them all. We have beaten them all....
KY3 News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... can have. 'For a country to have a great writer is like having another government," Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote. Journalism, done right, is enormously powerful precisely because it does not seek power. It seeks truth. Those who forsake it to shill for a product or a candidate or a party or an ideology diminish their own power. They are missing the most joyful part of the job."...
hamid & company (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... times. Russian poetry was supposed to have perished tragically early, interred with the body of Alexander Pushkin in 1837 following his fateful duel. Then along came Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva, an astonishing quartet of poets who revived and reinvented the genre in an explosion of creativity in the early 20th century. Epic Russian novels, meanwhile,...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... so strongly in his powers of persuasion that the transformative work once done by Lech Walesa, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Corazon Aquino, Wei Jingsheng and others now falls largely on his shoulders. Campbell's meeting with Suu Kyi provided a useful corrective, for one country at least, to this tendency. George W. Bush proved that it is possible to overdo support for dissident movements...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
John Thornhill in the FT: The death of Russian literature has been declared many times. Russian poetry was supposed to have perished tragically early, interred with the body of Alexander Pushkin in 1837 following his fateful duel. Then along came...
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... Russia wouldn't let its citizens read "The First Circle" and "Cancer Ward" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, comrades in the Pentagon refused to allow Gitmo prisoner Hamza al Bahlul to read Chomsky's "Interventions," sent him by a defense lawyer. The Pentagon's ban mimics Iran's campaign to kill British novelist Salman Rushdie for his 1988 epic "The Satanic...
Daily Online Alochona (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... Russia wouldn't let its citizens read "The First Circle" and "Cancer Ward" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, comrades in the Pentagon refused to allow Gitmo prisoner Hamza al Bahlul to read Chomsky's "Interventions," sent him by a defense lawyer. The Pentagon's ban mimics Iran's campaign to kill British novelist Salman Rushdie for his 1988 epic "The Satanic...
From The Wilderness (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... just as Communist Russia wouldn’t let its citizens read “The First Circle” and “Cancer Ward” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, comrades in the Pentagon refused to allow Gitmo prisoner Hamza al Bahlul to read Chomsky’s “Interventions,” sent him by a defense lawyer.The Pentagon’s ban mimics Iran’s campaign to kill British novelist Salman Rushdie for his 1988 epic “The Satanic Verses.” Iran’s...
The Public Record (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... just as Communist Russia wouldn’t let its citizens read “The First Circle” and “Cancer Ward” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, comrades in the Pentagon refused to allow Gitmo prisoner Hamza al Bahlul to read Chomsky’s Interventions , sent him by a defense lawyer. tininess The Pentagon’s ban mimics Iran’s campaign to kill British novelist Salman Rushdie for his 1988 epic “The Satanic Verses.”...
The Classic Liberal Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... in English and has been a sensation ever since. MAO: THE UNKNOWN STORY Like a bolt of lightening, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece Gulag Archipelago, published in 1974, destroyed in an instant over fifty years of lies and deceit about the Soviet Union and its leaders. Stalin would never again be seen as kindly Uncle Joe, but as a ruthless killer of millions. Some scholars suggest...
