Word: archipelago
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...that the great Russian writer's thunderous condemnations of the Soviet system would lose their authority once he became a mere emigre. On the anniversary of his banishment, Paris' Russian-language Y.M.C.A. Press published yet another devastating chronicle of Soviet repression by the author of The Gulag Archipelago. This was Solzhenitsyn's 629-page account of his 13-year struggle to survive as a writer in his homeland until he was arrested and dispatched to the West against his will. The book is called The Calf Butted the Oak-a Russian proverb that suggests a lonely struggle...
...couple vowed to name the baby Victor or Victoria in honor of the Allied triumph. "It was a beautiful story," recalled Zoya in Moscow, "a romantic, tragic love story." But as that story unfolded last week, it echoed Alexander Solzhenitsyn's account of Stalinist terror, The Gulag Archipelago, in which Zoya is mentioned...
...GULAG ARCHIPELAGO by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A passionate and excoriating account of the evolution of Soviet injustice by a victim (and patriot) who praises (and personifies) "the fearlessness of those who have lost everything...
...program department planned a series often-minute excerpts and summaries from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, the nightmare account of Soviet repression, to counteract Moscow's propaganda against the book. USIA ordered the project canceled...
...interviews with TIME, they defended their policy of not offending Communist governments. Keogh said that VGA has devoted "hundreds of hours" of air time to reports on what the American press was saying about the Solzhenitsyn story. He vetoed broadcasts of excerpts or summaries of The Gulag Archipelago because that amounted to "advocacy journalism." Said Keogh: "The Voice of America is not an international NBC or CBS. Detente has changed what we do in USIA. Our program managers must be sensitive to U.S. policy as enunciated by the President and the Secretary of State. That policy is that...