Word: solzhenitsyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NONFICTION: China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ∙ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich ∙ Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ Thirty Seconds, MichaelJ. Arlen ∙ War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
...outbreak of pulmonary anthrax, attributed to the development of biological-warfare weapons in a Sverdlovsk military facility, is, as you say, a revelation that is sure to contaminate further the at mosphere of detente. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn says, "This is the same detente that the West basked in so contentedly while millions were being exterminated in the jungles of Cambodia . . . and at a time when a thousand men, including twelve-year-old boys, were being executed in one Afghan village." We need detente like we need a hole in the head...
NONFICTION: China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston •Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear •Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich •Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn •Thirty Seconds, Michael J. Arlen •War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
NONFICTION: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, Hugo Vickers Maybe, Lillian Hellman Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook ∙The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙The Return of Eva Perón, V.S.Naipaul Thirty Seconds, MichaelJ. Arlen Wilderness of Mirrors, David C. Martin
Once a book has been forced into exile, its author often follows. Solzhenitsyn was ostentatiously deported in 1974, while Andrei Sinyavsky, Joseph Brodsky, Victor Nekrasov, Anatoli Gladilin, Yuz Aleshkovsky and others were pressured in various ways to emigrate. Vladimir Voinovich, the author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, a samizdat favorite published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1977, was warned by the Soviet authorities in March that his life would become "intolerable" unless he left the Soviet Union...