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...offered for sale. A study published by Pravda calculates that Soviet citizens waste 37 billion hours a year standing in line to buy food and other basic necessities. To bind an entire people to that kind of life is to do a little of the work of the Gulag in a different style...
...when the French newspaper Le Monde quoted Rigout as calling Marchais a "man of failure." During off-the-record conversations with journalists, Rigout charged that under Marchais's leadership the Communists have ncreasingly come to be seen by French voters, especially young people, as "the party of the Gulag." Rigout was reacting to the results of last month's elections for the European Parliament, in which the Communist share of the national vote plummeted to 11%, from 16% in 1981 and 20% in 1979. Rigout vigorously denied his remarks once they were published, but the journalists...
...meaning of life? You had that answer." But those same eyes, sparkling with conviction, could be blinkered in the face of such trifles as the Moscow trials, the Hitler-Stalin pact, the partial annexation of Finland and, later, the taking over of Eastern Europe and the reports of Gulag atrocities. It was not until 1956, and Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, that even the most loyal of party members began to wonder how something so good turned out so bad. By that time the Smith Act had made them criminals, and a few still huddled together in the camaraderie...
...commanding figures of Russian exile literature, Andrei Sinyavsky, 58, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 65, have chosen to remain relatively isolated in the West. Following a six-year sentence in the Gulag for publishing his work abroad, Sinyavsky moved to France in 1973 and quickly became a leader in émigré literary and political life. A Paris resident for more than a decade, Sinyavsky has not felt the need to learn French. Though he has written two remarkable phantasmagorical novels and innumerable articles while in exile, hardly any of Sinyavsky's writings have appeared in English since A Voice from...
Solzhenitsyn, meanwhile, rarely strays from the 50-acre estate in rural Vermont that he bought eight years ago because it reminded him of his beloved Russia. How the author of the magisterial The Gulag Archipelago is faring as a creative writer is unknown. All the works he has published since his deportation from the Soviet Union ten years ago have been either books completed before his exile, like the powerful memoir The Oak and the Calf, or speeches and articles of a political nature, like his sententious Warning to the West. In addition, he has revised many of his earlier...