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Many of the other arts followed patterns similar to those in film and theater: a few standout contributions in an otherwise unmemorable and/or incomprehensible decade. In literature, for example, the most notable works were written by names from the past: Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, a few others. Twenty years from now, though, an historian looking back on the '70s will proably be more impressed--or depressed--by the extraordinary amount of selfhelp/how-to/me-generation literature that dominated the best-seller lists: The Joy of Sex, I'm OK, You're OK, The Complete Scarsdale Medical...
July 26: Brezhnev dies. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn is swept into power in huge street demonstrations by Eastern Orthodox Christian militants. Solzhenitsyn announces the formation of a Christian republic, imposes martial...
November 21: Soviet leader Alexandr Solzhenitsyn praises "revival of moral fiber of the West." Begin, Thatcher, Gandhi, Marcos and Botha send messages of support to Carter...
...village commune, or mir, as a cohesive force binding the empire, while the radicals perceived the mir as a ready-made basis for socialism. In his later years, Tolstoy saw the peasant as a religious figure possessing a pure and particularly Russian spirituality-a view now shared by Solzhenitsyn...
...Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a harrowing documentary of Stalinist terror and oppression...