Word: solzhenitsyn
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Pivot has had his share of scoops. In 1983 he was the first to be granted a television interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn after the Russian writer moved to the U.S. This spring he made headlines after he flew to Poland and surreptitiously taped a lengthy conversation in Gdansk with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, whose autobiography was recently published in France...
...Like Solzhenitsyn's work, Children of the Arbat is highly autobiographical and is as much nonfiction as fiction. Rybakov spent his childhood at 51 Arbat Street, where much of the action takes place. Many of the book's characters, including Stalin, his private secretary Alexander Poskrebyshev and Sergei Kirov, are real people. Most of the fictional characters are also patterned after actual Soviet citizens...
...first to agree with that proposition was Alexander Tvardovsky, former editor of the literary journal Novy Mir, which in 1962 published Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a book about life in a Stalinist prison camp. Tvardovsky ran a notice in 1966 saying that the first part of Children of the Arbat would appear in 1967. It never did. In 1978 another monthly, Oktyabr, included Children of the Arbat in a list of books to be serialized in 1979. But again the year passed with neither publication nor explanation. The version that begins running this...
...billion communications empire already straddles three continents and, via satellite, reaches into space. Still, Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch detected a weak spot: no major U.S. publishing house. Meanwhile, 170-year-old Harper & Row, which has published authors ranging from Mark Twain to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was the target of at least two takeover bids. Without so much as a rumor, Murdoch swept in with a bid of $65 a share, clobbering a $34 offer from Magazine Publisher Theodore Cross and the $50 price proposed by rival publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Harper & Row quickly accepted the $300 million deal last week...
...current ferment is reminiscent of the early 1960s, when Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev allowed the publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first detailed description of life in ! the Soviet Gulag. That thaw gradually congealed after Khrushchev's ouster. It remains to be seen how long Gorbachev will leave Soviet culture open to the winds of free inquiry...