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Once again last week Russia's greatest living writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, hurtled forward on a collision course with the Kremlin leaders. Heroically disregarding official threats, the Nobel-prize winning novelist authorized publication in the West of by far his most explosive work. It was Solzhenitsyn's first nonfiction book, a 600-page documentation of the entire Soviet system of mass police terror from...
Titled The Gulag Archipelago,* the book is based on Solzhenitsyn's eleven years in prisons, concentration camps and exile, as well as letters that he received from ex-prisoners and interviews that he conducted with 227 survivors of slave-labor camps. Last week, as the Russian text appeared in Paris, and the New York Times began syndicating a 10,000-word excerpt, Gulag struck its early readers as both a literary masterwork and an unparalleled indictment of the Soviet regime...
...their persistent and unfaltering courage in speaking out against Soviet suppression of intellectuals, my vote for Man of the Year goes jointly to Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov...
...Henry M. Jackson's amendment making most-favored-nation status in Soviet trade contingent upon free emigration. Medvedev praised Sakharov's "unquestionable courage" and denounced the "gross and unjust" harassment that the scientist has suffered from Soviet authorities. But Medvedev also suggested that Sakharov and Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn may unwittingly be aiding reactionaries within the Soviet leadership, who can seize on their declarations "to split and demoralize dissidents...
...author of this letter is "Dimitri Sologdin," one of the heroes of The First Circle by Solzhenitsyn, who served in the same Soviet camps and prisons with him from...