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When Alexander Solzhenitsyn was abruptly expelled from Russia as a traitorous "alien" last February, the Soviet leaders hoped to rid the U.S.S.R. of a commanding moral presence whose martyrdom had mesmerized the world. If he were yet another emigre, they calculated, the authority of the Nobel-prizewinning writer would gradually cease to be felt in the West and, more important, among Soviet citizens...
...Zurich last week, Solzhenitsyn demonstrated that even in exile he had no intention of allowing the Kremlin to destroy his influence. In his modest two-story home, he announced to the press the forthcoming publication of a volume of eleven essays designed to stir heated debate in the U.S.S.R...
Entitled From Under the Ruins, the essays, three of which were written by Solzhenitsyn, advanced some controversial solutions to Russia's problems. They range widely over a number of highly topical issues including the future of Christianity in Russia, the transformation of the economy and the explosive question of the U.S.S.R.'s restive minorities. The book will appear in Russian next week in Paris (Y.M.C.A. Press); an English translation will be published in the U.S. early next year by Little, Brown...
...Ultraconservative William Buckley overcome his loathing for the United Nations and accept an assignment last year as U.S. representative on the U.N. Human Rights Committee? "Pure undiluted Walter Mittyism" seized him, Buckley confesses. Single-handed he would hold the world body spellbound as he read from Solzhenitsyn or pleaded the case for Ballet Dancer Valéry Panov. He would cajole, mesmerize, seduce, intimidate the delegates. The soaring Buckley vision of man's rights, in fact, might "repristinate" the jaded international bureaucracy...
...became Minister of Culture in 1960 and the most powerful woman in the Soviet Union. As Culture Minister, "Baba Katya" (Grannie Kate) sponsored an upsurge of artistic exchange with the West, but shifted after Patron Khrushchev's ouster to a policy of harsh repression (notably against Alexander Solzhenitsyn...