Word: solzhenitsyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Solzhenitsyn and Prayer...
...dismayed to read that Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded a prize for his stand in favor of school prayer [March 14]. He shows little understanding of this country's separation of church and state and how vital that separation is to religious freedom. If school prayer is required, we will have agreed that Government can usurp the religious function of the church, the synagogue and the home...
...Politburo clearly value. The democratic movement within the Soviet Union that first surfaced in the 1960s and gained impetus from the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Human Rights has been all but crushed. Punishment for dissent has been selectively tailored for the dissidents: some are expelled, as outspoken Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn was in 1974; others, like Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov, are sent into internal exile; still others?like Sergei Batovrin, spokesman for an independent peace group-are shut away in psychiatric hospitals. Finally, there is the Gulag, which, according to human rights activists, holds some 1,000 known political prisoners...
...were eased, and wages were increased. At the same time, Brezhnev subtly moved back toward some policies that were reminiscent of the Stalin years. Arrests and deportations gradually extinguished the dissident movement. Some future historians may mark Brezhnev's expulsion in 1974 of Nobel-prize-winning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn as one of the most significant events of the Soviet leader's long reign...
Since Marshall's speech, few have gained as much attention as Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who in 1978 denounced the whole of Western social values. University Marshall William G. Anderson, who is retiring this year after 17 years as Harvard's chief protocol officer, recalls Solzhemtsyn's speech as the most memorable that he has witnessed, although he adds that he mainly pays attention to dealing with the day's organized pandemonium...