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...ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Scourge of communism loses his TV series to a capitalist ailment: low ratings...
Genovese's broadside, to some European intellectuals, is merely one new entry in an old and familiar debate that has been particularly vibrant in France. The 1973 publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago was a critical event for the French left. His searing expose of the vast Soviet prison-camp system, which sold 600,000 copies in France in less than a year, inspired a cadre of ex-radicals eventually known as "The New Philosophers" to issue its own critiques of communism. In Barbarism with a Human Face, for example, Bernard-Henri Levy demanded that French radicals confront...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel-prizewinning novelist and freshly returned exile to Russia, sat in the Musical Comedy Theater of the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk and carefully jotted down their comments in a black notebook. He had chosen to return to Moscow via a long cross-country train trip lasting several weeks, stopping in towns along the way to greet the locals and listen to their complaints. When he arrived later at Blagoveshchensk, he was surprised to see 200 well-wishers. "I didn't expect there would be so many people," Solzhenitsyn said. "I say this everywhere, and I want...
...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn embarked on a slow train journey across Russia with his family, one of the few journalists with whom he spoke was TIME senior correspondent David Aikman, who had interviewed the Russian writer in Vermont in 1989. During their conversations, Aikman made the following notes on Solzhenitsyn's thoughts about his return home...
Socialist victory ends the class struggle and wipes out the old "capitalist" contradiction between beauty and truth. We in 1994 may get a hoot from Ekaterina Zernova's 1937 painting of collective farmers greeting a tank in a country lane with bouquets, or Aleksandr Deineka's solemn image of Lenin (who was childless) on a country spin in an open car with seven children, thus signifying his fatherhood of Russia. Why do we laugh? Because we do not grasp how, in the words of Towards a Theory of Art by an apparatchik named G. Nedoshivin, once "the basis in reality...