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...cover story, Blake read The Gulag Archipelago in Russian and selected the excerpts of it that appear in this issue. "The study of Solzhenitsyn," she notes, "is tremendously broad, covering virtually the whole of Soviet society from World War I to the present...
...Giant Thorn. Solzhenitsyn's final and intolerable challenge came when he authorized publication in Paris of the first two parts of The Gulag Archipelago...
...devastating, documented account of Lenin's and Stalin's reign of terror, the book was a reminder of how unfree Soviet society was, and still is. Moreover, as the Kremlin well knew, he had even more devastating revelations to make: five as yet unpublished sequels to Gulag deal with repression under Khrushchev and his successor Leonid Brezhnev. Soviet frustration was mixed with anger when the author declared that he would order all his banned work published abroad if he was arrested. Defying the regime to act against him, Solzhenitsyn answered a barrage of criticism in the Soviet press with ever...
Solzhenitsyn does not live and write in order to vent his personal spleen against the Communist regime. "The Gulag Archipelago" was written to remind us that the concentration camps still exist and that millions continue to die in them, and to remind the U.S. of its criminal stupidity and moral fecklessness in failing to combat Soviet oppression of its people. Although Solzhenitsyn himself may now be safe, the Soviet dictatorship still remains...
...reality, Solzhenitsyn and Vitkevich had exchanged letters criticizing Stalin when both were Red Army officers in World War II. Solzhenitsyn writes in Gulag that this was the cause of their imprisonment in 1945. After being confronted with the letters, Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years of hard labor, plus "perpetual exile"; Vitkevich got ten years, without exile. But last week Vitkevich claimed that Solzhenitsyn had betrayed him and three other people, including the writer's own wife, in order to get "a lighter sentence." As proof, Vitkevich alleged that when he was released in 1957, he was shown part...