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...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 Moreover, as the Kremlin well knew, he had even more devastating revelations to make: five as yet unpublished sequels to Gulag deal with repression under Khrushchev and his successor Leonid Brezhnev.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...
...Accident. Solzhenitsyn argues that Stalin's rule by terror was no mere aberration in the development of Communism. Instead, he writes, it is inherent in the system established by Lenin, consolidated by Stalin and preserved, in essence, by the present Kremlin leaders...
...victims of Soviet terror whom he would meticulously interview for the next 23 years. He was struck by a bitter paradox: prison offered the possibility of discussing freely what was unthinkable "outside." Meetings with prisoners led him, for the first time, to question his faith in Marx and Lenin. One old-time convict, a former associate of Lenin's, told him: "You're a mathematician. Don't forget Descartes. Subject everything to doubt. Everything...
...arrest and deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn should not surprise the world, as it is a logical outgrowth of the greatest assault ever mounted on the human spirit, which began under Lenin and did not cease with the death of Stalin. What should surprise us is the fact that while we are momentarily outraged by the injustice done to one great man, we forget or ignore the grinding tyranny under which Soviet citizens live every day. Defenders of Solzhenitsyn are properly legion, but who has defended Raiza Palathnic, Slyvia Zalmanson, Sinyavsky and Daniels, the four Jewish dissidents convicted last week...
...brought out of Russia and is already in New York. The unpublished volumes are reportedly not confined, like the first, to documenting Soviet terroristic practices from 1918 to 1956. They are said to record the system of repression reconstructed by the present Soviet leaders on the foundations established by Lenin and Stalin. Although Solzhenitsyn has thus far refrained from ordering their publication abroad, he has instructed his representatives in the West to go ahead if he should be arrested...