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...Russia now dare to publicly support the beleaguered writer, as hundreds have done in the past. Only a dozen brave men could be found to speak up for him in Russia. Among these was Andrei Sakharov, the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. With a courage commensurate to Solzhenitsyn's, the physicist told a Swiss journalist that "the spiritual and moral impact of the facts revealed in Gulag will be enormous. Only by becoming conscious of the crimes perpetrated in the recent past can we hope to get out of this bloody circle. I am convinced that this work...
...concern for Solzhenitsyn's safety mounted in the West, publishers were gearing up for a record bestseller. In Paris, the Russian-language edition sold out in three weeks. In New York, bookstores reported that the first copies arriving from France were snapped up by Soviet diplomats. Gulag's Swiss publisher ordered an additional 260,000 printing of the German translation after selling out 50,000 books in a week...
Although the English translation will not appear in the U.S. until May, Harper & Row has advance orders totaling nearly 1 million copies; Gulag has been chosen as the Book-of-the-Month Club selection for June. Solzhenitsyn has asked that the book be priced as cheaply as possible so that a maximum number of people may read it. As a result, Harper & Row will issue simultaneously a paperback at $1.95 and a limited edition of hardback copies of the 606-page illustrated book at $12.50. The author's royalties and some of the publisher's revenue are being...
...already in New York. The unpublished volumes are reportedly not confined, like the first, to documenting Soviet terroristic practices from 1918 to 1956. They are said to record the system of repression reconstructed by the present Soviet leaders on the foundations established by Lenin and Stalin. Although Solzhenitsyn has thus far refrained from ordering their publication abroad, he has instructed his representatives in the West to go ahead if he should be arrested...
Massive Protest. Solzhenitsyn's imprisonment would not only assure the immediate publication of the whole of Gulag, but it would also unleash massive worldwide protest-something that the Kremlin fervently wishes to avoid in an era of detente with the West. Instead, the Soviet leaders have evidently been trying to intimidate Solzhenitsyn into leaving Russia voluntarily. They probably calculate that as one more dissident emigre in the West, Solzhenitsyn would soon cease to command world attention...