Word: solzhenitsyn
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...just wish I'd handled the Pasternak affair the way I dealt with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ((published in 1962)). In that case, I read the book myself. It is very heavy but well written. It made the reader react with revulsion to the conditions in which Ivan Denisovich and his friends lived while they served their terms...
Sakharov is indisputably a Russian, but his ideals, in contradiction to the other great Soviet dissident Solzhenitsyn, are very Western. The driving force behind his protests is an unshakable faith in the importance of freedom of the individual to belief, speech, religion, from persecution and from want. The scope of his protests cover foreign affairs, prisoners of conscience, the death penalty, the environment, even cruelty to animals. The freedom of the individual is the driving force behind all of his activism...
...first was novelist Joseph Conrad in the magazine's sixth issue, in 1923. Eight have appeared twice: George Bernard Shaw (1923 and 1956), Sinclair Lewis (1927 and 1945), James Joyce (1934 and 1939), Ernest Hemingway (1937 and 1954), Andre Malraux (1938 and 1955), William Faulkner (1939 and 1964), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1968 and 1974) and John Updike (1968 and 1982). Eugene O'Neill appeared four times (1924, 1928, 1931 and 1946). Other writers include Russell Baker, John Cheever, Noel Coward, Graham Greene, Alex Haley, John Irving, Jean Kerr, Stephen King, John le Carre, Norman Mailer, Mario Puzo, J.D. Salinger, Neil Simon...
...writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was also included in many of these attacks. The vital truths expressed in his extraordinary literary works and keen polemics had made him the object of virulent party and KGB hatred for several years; now there were claims that I alone, or the two of us, were engaged in a slanderous assault on Soviet society and its guarantees of work, free medical care and an unrivaled educational system. The main charge was that we were enemies of detente, working against peace...
...Sept. 5, Solzhenitsyn dispatched his article "Peace and Violence" for publication abroad, warning the West about the nature and extent of state violence in the U.S.S.R. Just before its publication, he added the proposal that I be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "indefatigable, devoted (and personally dangerous) opposition to systematic state violence...