Word: solzhenitsyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent article in Foreign Affairs, Alexander Solzhenitsyn describes from his exile in Vermont how a peasant family in the middle of Russia wants simply to be left alone: "If only the petty local Communist despot would somehow quit his uncontrolled tyranny, if only they could get enough to eat for once, and buy shoes for the children, and lay in enough fuel for the winter, if only they could have sufficient space to live even two to a room...
...Soviets accept Solzhenitsyn's messianic vision of a Russia straining against its chains, yearning for some spiritual revolution that will throw off Communist rule and replace it at least temporarily with an ill-defined "authoritarian order founded on love of one's fellowman." The Soviet Union's other giant of opposition, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, has been promulgating a very different sort of dissent lately from his internal exile in the industrial city of Gorky. Sakharov is a liberal in the Western mold, a believer in pluralist democracy. But neither alternative seems to reflect the aspirations of the Soviet masses...
...that the rediscovery of Orthodoxy, complete with icons and ancient liturgical music, like a revival of interest in the nation's pre-revolutionary religious philosophers, is part of a new concern for Russia's historical culture. The best-known proponent of religious renewal is exiled Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, but its keenest and most significant supporters are in the Soviet Union. Members of the Christian Seminar on Problems of Religious Renaissance, formed in 1974, proclaim: "We heard a call to salvation-the voice of our ancestors, our fathers, our saints. We found Russia...
...novel, viewing it as prefabricated Stalinist architecture. The genre of choice is the short story or novella. Many writers have managed gradually to escape from Socialist Realism, with its obligatory jargon and hortatory themes, traveling a world away -back to 19th century realism. Even Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the two major Russian writers to produce big novels, did so in the classical manner...
...Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...