The September issue of "The New Criterion," just out, contains a translation of Natalia Solzhenitsyn's introduction to the abridged one-volume GULAG...
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norm@...
normthecaliph
Sep 7, 2012 10:14 pm
May I ask, both, as a matter of literature...
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norm@...
normthecaliph
Sep 7, 2012 10:52 pm
May I ask as, both, a matter of literature as well as historical documentation, since GA is both (and more, including human rights protest), how can an...
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Mahoney, Daniel (Poli...
dmahoney@...
Sep 7, 2012 11:33 pm
I might have read the articles before asking these questions! The abridgement has nothing to do with concessions--Mrs. Solzhenitsyn shares her husband"s...
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norm@...
normthecaliph
Sep 7, 2012 11:53 pm
Thank you, sir. I shall forthwith do my homework! I apologize once again, was asking in the interest of expediency only. As said, it is unusual to abridge a...
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Steven
daneejo
Oct 3, 2012 10:24 am
Alexandra Popoff has written a book how wives of several well known Russian novelists were extensively involved in helping their husbands write; correcting...
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Alexis Klimoff
klimoff@...
Oct 3, 2012 2:04 pm
This is very attractively written. But to ascribe it to a culture of feminine submission is not necessarily persuasive. The examples of Anna Dostoevsky and...
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norm@...
normthecaliph
Oct 3, 2012 2:37 pm
It is simple human nature to band closer together in matters of mortal survival and limited means of income. If the Nabakovs or Tolstoys had been farmers or...
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Steven
daneejo
Oct 10, 2012 11:08 am
I'm rereading Cancer Ward, and I get to the section where Dyomka is wondering why Kozhevnikov's Stalin Prize winning novel "Water of Life" didn't make a big...
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vfishman99@...
vfishman99
Oct 10, 2012 6:53 pm
Hi Steven, AIS meant Aleksei Kozhevnikov. He was awarded the Stalin Prize for his novel "Water of Life" in 1951. Here is the link to the related Wikipedia page...
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Steve Petrica
stpetric
Nov 17, 2012 1:43 am
50 years since Solzhenitsyn's Gulag rocked USSR [image: Soviet writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn photographed in Moscow in 1998. Russia marks 50...
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Steve Petrica
stpetric
Nov 23, 2012 10:16 pm
Friday, November 23, 2012 Kazakhstan Fifty Years After 'Denisovich,' Traveling Back To Solzhenitsyn's Gulag By Zhoyamergen Orken November 23, 2012 EKIBASTUZ,...
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Steven
daneejo
Nov 27, 2012 10:13 pm
"In celebration of his life and work, we offer an interview given shortly after the writer's death by Archpriest Nikolai Chernyshev, cleric of the St. Nicholas...
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norm@...
normthecaliph
Nov 28, 2012 6:08 pm
The article mis-labels "conservative" figures. The Stalinists weren't conservatives any more than Schicklegruber or Mao were conservatives. Stalin was a...
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Steven
daneejo
Nov 29, 2012 3:05 am
Norm says: "The article mis-labels "conservative" figures. The Stalinists weren't conservatives any more than Schicklegruber or Mao were conservatives. Stalin...
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norm@...
normthecaliph
Nov 29, 2012 1:19 pm
(Steven said) ... Steven, perhaps this is more useful. The author of 1953's "The Conservative Mind" (Russell Kirk) Regnery Press, said in 1987, about the ...
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Steven
daneejo
Nov 29, 2012 5:19 pm
Norm, I like Kirk's definition. Actually it reminds me of what Varsonoviev told Sasha and his buddy in August 1914 -- there exists an ideal social order and...
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Steve Petrica
stpetric
Dec 2, 2012 6:33 pm
If I ever make it to Switzerland I'd like to take this guy's tour. The visuals in the video are lovely although the narrative/interview is pretty vacuous. The...
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Steven
daneejo
Dec 26, 2012 10:49 am
Ian McEwan's recent novel Sweet Tooth features a protagonist who is a fan of Solzhenitsyn. Early in the story, the character describes her childhood and...
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Steve Petrica
stpetric
Jan 8, 2013 7:09 pm
AIS being invoked in China... [image: Letter from China - Dispatches by Evan Osnos.]<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/> JANUARY 8, 2013 ...
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Steve Petrica
stpetric
Jan 31, 2013 1:49 am
No Solzhenitsyn content, but a fascinating little slice of Russian culture. Steve ... [image: Smithsonian.com | History &...
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Steve Petrica
stpetric
Feb 3, 2013 10:51 pm
- <http://www.rutlandherald.com/> - Article published Feb 3, 2013 *Town meeting will decide on Solzhenitsyn exhibit* By Christian Avard Staff Writer ...
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normthecaliph
Feb 4, 2013 12:57 am
I suppose it would be internationally impolitic for the US to also have a Gulag museum of some sort, perhaps on the Mall, next to the Holocaust Museum. Perhaps...
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Steven
daneejo
Feb 19, 2013 9:55 pm
This article claims that the Marfino sharaska had a lasting influence on current Russian surveillance technology. Sometime after 1949, the KGB moved the...
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Steve Petrica
stpetric
Mar 5, 2013 4:32 pm
Vt. Town OKs Church Takeover, Solzhenitsyn Exhibit CAVENDISH, Vt. March 5, 2013 (AP) Residents of a small town that was the home of exiled former Soviet ...
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Steve Petrica
stpetric
Apr 13, 2013 12:16 pm
Article about a retrospective on the career of the actor, Tom Courtenay, who played Ivan Denisovich in the 1970 film version of AIS's book. The film remains...
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Alexis Klimoff
klimoff@...
Apr 13, 2013 1:50 pm
It is worth noting in this connection that there exists a fine book on the making of the film: Ben Hellman and Andrei Rogachevskii, "Filming the Unfilmable*:...
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Alexis Klimoff
klimoff@...
Apr 16, 2013 2:48 am
The following site was brought to my attention by a friend. I have no information about this group of readers, but their comments have considerable interest. ...
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normthecaliph
Apr 16, 2013 4:41 am
The US' internal passport procedures are presently more onerous than the old regulations under the Soviets? Huh? I've already lost interest after their first...
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Steve Petrica
stpetric
May 18, 2013 4:25 am
[image: The Hollywood Reporter] Cannes: Cyrus Nowrasteh Set to Direct Alexander Solzhenitsyn Biopic 8:39 AM PDT 5/17/2013 by Pamela McClintock The project is...
