Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kogan anticipates no problems in visiting the USSR. She plans to take Russian lessons at Columbia this summer. Her confidence is based on innate idealism--"Music is an international language. Everyone understands it," she jokes--and determination: "I will pass through the iron curtain with my iron will and iron fist...
Fascinated by Soviet Jewry, she wants to live close enough to examine first-hand the situation under which Russian Jews live. She confided that she is also anxious to learn how to drink vodka like a true Russian...
Solzhenitsyn's novels reflect the intense brooding sadness of the Russian people, expressed through events similar to those of his own life. His eight-year stay in Stalinist labor camps, as well as his recovery from cancer, clearly contributed to the characterizations and intense emotional power of Cancer Ward, The First Circle, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and The Gulag Archipelago...
Solzhenitsyn will receive an honorary degree from the University before delivering his address in Russian with an accompanying translation...
...Russian author electrified the West in 1974 in a British Broadcasting Company program in which he denounced detente and condemned the West for its refusal to recognize what he considered to be the expansionist motives of Soviet foreign policy...