SOLZHENITSYN

Source: www.iht.com --- 8 days ago
What seems to have gotten lost in all the tributes to Alexander SOLZHENITSYN is the reason he was listened to in the first place - namely, his virtues as a writer. ...

Source: www.thehindu.com --- 16 days ago
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Source: clipmarks.com --- 16 days ago
clipped by: n2sooners Clip Source: tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com There's been a ton of buzz on the web for the last day or so -- beginning with this Daily Kos diary But it turns out that this episode probably never happened to SOLZHENITSYN at all, and according to a SOLZHENITSYN biographer it appears nowhere in his published writing. Columbia University professor Michael Scammell, the author of SOLZHENITSYN: A Biography , says the episode "never happened," and didn't appear in SOLZHENITSYN's book, Gulag Archipelago , either. One key source being cited on the internets right now for the story that this supposedly happened to SOLZHENITSYN is this sermon by Luke Veronis, an American priest who preached it in Albania in March of 1997. It was reprinted in a journal called In communion . He says Veronis' telling of the tale doesn't fit with what actually happened to SOLZHENITSYN "in any way." "Nobody who's read Gulag Archipelago knows that story," This never happened to SOLZHENITSYN, and there's no way McCain could have picked it up from his works. Tags: mccain , pow , SOLZHENITSYN , campaign , politics , religion ...

Source: books.elliottback.com --- 13 days ago
Alexander SOLZHENITSYN, Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago and One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, has died at age 89 of heart failure. The BBC article has some commentary: He died in his home in the Moscow area, where he had lived with his wife Natalya, at 2345 local time (1945 GMT), Stepan told Itar-Tass. [...] ...

Source: clipmarks.com --- 20 days ago
clipped by: anatolant clipper's remarks: Russian or Slavic? Now, again, who will own the name of SOLZHENITSYN? Clip Source: www.nytimes.com MOSCOW — What is the legacy of Aleksandr SOLZHENITSYN , and what is his relevance for Russians today? In the hours after Mr. SOLZHENITSYN’s death, The New York Times posed this question to readers of its Russian-language blog on livejournal.com . ...

Source: desicritics.org --- 1 day ago
I should confess that I had never read any of Aleksandr SOLZHENITSYN’s works while he lived. The flurry of obituaries and articles that followed his death at the age of 89 motivated me to start with his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. A little less than 200 pages, this translated work is based on SOLZHENITSYN’s own experiences in a Soviet gulag. One Day was originally published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir after receiving approval from Khrushchev and the Communist Party Central Committee who felt that Stalinist excesses had to be exposed. Six years ago, Khrushchev had denounced Stalin as a brutal dictator. The protagonist, Ivan Denisovich Shukov, is a soldier who had the misfortune to be captured by the Germans and the double misfortune to be able to escape from captivity. One would think an escaped PoW would be welcomed with open arms. At least, in Mikhail Sholokov’s The Fate of a Man, one of my all time favourite short stories, the hero escapes from German captivity and gets, well, a hero’s welcome. Shukov (as SOLZHENITSYN’s hero is referred to throughout One Day) is not so lucky. He is suspected of being a German spy and is given a ten year sentence in the gulag. We are told that from 1949 onwards, the standard sentence was raised to twenty five years. I read this book during the long train commute I have each day to get to my place of work. Nothing could have prepared me for On ...

Source: www.artsjournal.com --- 19 days ago
"SOLZHENITSYN was not only a beacon for free expression in the political world; he became, for some leading Soviet musicians, a symbol that they could make a public statement about, through their invitations on to the West's stages."... ...

Source: blogs.cqpolitics.com --- 19 days ago
Last night, we mentioned some early buzz in the blogosphere surrounding the anecdote Sen. John McCain uses about a North Vietnamese prison guard making a cross in the dirt while he was a captive. He apparently first told the story in his 1999 memoirs. However, similarities to McCain's story and an accounting by Alexander SOLZHENITSYN were striking. Others have noted how McCain's version of the story has changed over time. Interestingly, though it was a post on the liberal DailyKos that brought the story to life yesterday, the conservative Free Republic site raised the same charges back in 2005. Here are some more reactions across the blogosphere: The Carpetbagger Report : "Is it possible that SOLZHENITSYN and McCain had extremely similar experiences? Of course it is. Coincidences happen. But there's reason to be suspicious about whether McCain's powerful anecdote is apocryphal." Ezra Klein : "The enthusiasm with which he repeats this story in his presidential incarnation contrasts oddly with his apparent reticence to mention the moment -- even when talking about religion and captivity -- in the thirty years before his presidential run. That said, he deserves an opportunity to explain the genesis of his own story, and I expect that he will." Mark Nicholas : "Isn't it odd that McCain and SOLZHENITSYN would have experienced such nearly identical events during their respective captivities? And note that SOLZHENITSYN's event happened ...

Source: scienceblogs.com --- 17 days ago
Cal Thomas, co-founder of the Moral Majority long ago, has a column about Alexander SOLZHENITSYN that spells out his anti-liberty views. It's certainly true that SOLZHENITSYN was a courageous man for speaking out against the horror of Stalin's gulags and communist oppression; unfortunately he harbored a great many authoritarian tendencies himself and viewed liberty with suspicion whenever it allowed someone to do something he found morally objectionable. Thomas writes of a speech that SOLZHENITSYN gave at Harvard in 1978. Thomas' screed is full of the usual cheap shots at the "intellectual elite" -- as was SOLZHENITSYN's speech -- that we are used to hearing from the misological right. Like this: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... ...

Source: www.virtueonline.org --- 9 days ago
SOLZHENITSYN: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness The Legacy of Greatness Editorial By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org 8/27/2008 More than 30 years ago, I wrote my masters degree dissertation on the Idea of Man in the writings of Alexander SOLZHENITSYN. Little did I know that SOLZHENITSYN would be one of the last great voices of Christian orthodoxy whose "idea of man" was specifically Christian and that determinist, feminist, pansexualist, and materialist theories of Man would seep into the warp and woof of western Christianity denying its very transcendence. ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 9 days ago
I N June 1974, or thereabout, a Ghanaian friend of mine presented me with a book, Letter to Soviet Leaders, written the year before by Alexander SOLZHENITSYN. The book was translated from the Russian original by Hilary Sternberg and published by ... ...

Source: johnharmstrong.typepad.com --- 13 days ago
When the recently-deceased Russian dissident, Alexandr SOLZHENITSYN, gave his now famous address to Harvard thirty years ago this summer, he warned us that we should not buy into the belief that all nations longed for American style democracy. But this... ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 11 days ago
Post-Soviet Russia is a curious place. It revels in unbridled jingoism that Soviet propaganda would have envied while renaming streets to honor dissident writer Alexander SOLZHENITSYN. ...

Source: www.larreina.net --- 13 days ago
Durante estos días estoy teniendo la gran oportunidad de conocer un viejo Pueblo centro-europeo que esta empezando a adquirir un dinamismo muy esperanzador para su futuro. Recorriedo las calles de Bratislava me venían a a la cabeza algunas ideas que en su día leí del premio nobel recientemente fallecido, Alexander SOLZHENITSYN. Desde mi primer contacto [...] ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 15 days ago
Everyone in my family is always bugging me about getting a reliable car. I have this old Lexus with 230,000 miles, so I bought my son's Honda to have something that wouldn't give out for odd reasons at odd ... ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 12 days ago
August 25, 2008 Monday Alexander SOLZHENITSYN's war of words against the USSR We have of course already alluded here to the passing of Alexander SOLZHENITSYN . ...

Source: www.gonzalobarr.com --- 4 days ago
Edward E. Ericson, Jr., a professor emeritus of English at Calvin College, recently wrote an essay on SOLZHENITSYN for The Wall Street Journal. In the essay, Ericson rejected the notion that SOLZHENITSYN was a “dour jeremiah figure hurling thunderous judgments at a wayward world.” Instead, the writer described himself as “an unshakable optimist,” convinced that the [...] ...

Source: ppmartin.wordpress.com --- 19 days ago
Excerpt from his novel “The gulag Archipelago”: << We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. 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 [...] ...

Source: fruitfly.wordpress.com --- 9 days ago
Nice. McCain is using this “parable” in front of the Jesus-Freaks in Orange County, CA to whore out his image as a good Christian man. In a self-inflicted emotional moment, he inverts the details from Alexander Solzhenitsy’s original story as a Holocaust prisoner to fit his own experience as a POW in Viet Nam. [...] ...