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During the last years of his life, former Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev dictated his memoirs, filling almost 180 hours of tape with reminiscences of a career that took shape in the days of Stalin and ultimately exerted a lasting influence on the history of this century. The existence of these tapes was revealed last week when Time Inc. presented them to the Oral History Collection of Columbia University, along with authentication and transcripts...
After Time Inc. obtained the tapes, they were translated and edited into two separate volumes of memoirs by TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott, a student of Russian literature and former Rhodes Scholar. The first volume, Khrushchev Remembers, was published in 1970. The second, based on tapes that were dictated for the most part between the time the first volume appeared and Khrushchev's death in 1971, will be called Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. Excerpts from it will appear in TIME before its publication in June by Little, Brown & Co. TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schechter, our Moscow bureau chief...
With the banishment, Solzhenitsyn's remarkable career as a writer in Soviet Russia came full circle. It had begun with the official publication in 1962 of his concentration camp novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that Pravda hailed as a masterpiece. Nikita Khrushchev was, in a way, his patron; he had encouraged the publication of One Day as part of his own effort to discredit Stalin. But once Khrushchev himself was deposed, there followed for Solzhenitsyn a decade of increasingly dramatic confrontations with the authorities. His subsequent novels were banned, and he was regularly excoriated...
...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 Moreover, as the Kremlin well knew, he had even more devastating revelations to make: five as yet unpublished sequels to Gulag deal with repression under Khrushchev and his successor Leonid Brezhnev.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 more daring...
True, that terror subsided after 1956, when, by Khrushchev's decree, millions were freed from the giant "archipelago" of prisons and camps run by "Gulag," the Central Corrective Labor Camp Administration. But the significance of Gulag lies in its thrust into the present?and future?of the U.S.S.R...