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ALEXANDER DOLGUN'S STORY: AN AMERICAN IN THE GULAG by ALEXANDER DOLGUN with PATRICK WATSON 370 pages. Knopf...
Considered highly reliable, the Chronicle recently printed a list of all the items lifted by the KGB in a search of Physicist Andrei Tverdokhlebov's Moscow apartment (including a copy of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago and three issues of the Chronicle). In addition to news of Marchenko's fate, the Chronicle has a chilling, 70-page report written in Solzhenitsynian detail on the conditions endured by Russia's current political prisoners. Says Chalidze: "We don't use something unless we're absolutely sure it is real...
...hoped 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...
...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...