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...questions are asked by Russian Geneticist Zhores Medvedev, a leading Soviet intellectual and close friend of the man who for years has had to bear the weight of official Soviet censorship -Alexander Solzhenitsyn. That such questions are being put forward by a Soviet citizen who has been given official permission to live in London for a year -and presumably could be "recalled" home for simply asking them-is significant enough. Even more important, they have been raised in the first biography by a Russian of the country's greatest living novelist...
Tragic History. At the center of the book is the tragic literary history of Solzhenitsyn. Ironically, his troubles began with the publication of One Day by the literary magazine Novy...
Eventually that book became an increasingly intolerable burden to the new leadership of the Communist Party. In the shifts of party policy that followed Khrushchev's downfall, mere mention of any crimes committed in the Stalinist era was anathema. Friends of Solzhenitsyn who tried to defend his subsequent anti-Stalinist books (including The Cancer Ward and The First Circle) were condemned by the official press, and many lost their jobs. Solzhenitsyn himself was ousted from the Soviet Writers Union...
Medvedev singles out a number of people who have made notable efforts to discredit Solzhenitsyn. For instance, Culture Minister Yekaterina Furtseva helped prevent Solzhenitsyn from receiving the 1964 Lenin Prize for Literature, one of the Soviet Union's most prestigious awards. Medvedev also attacks Victor Louis, a roaming Soviet correspondent noted for providing leaks on Soviet policy shifts to the Western press. The author describes him as a "special agent of the KGB." Louis, claims Medvedev, planted a stolen copy of Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward with the Russian emigre publication Posev, which is based in West Germany...
Marriage Revealed. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 54, Nobel-prizewinning Russian author whose books (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovlch, August 1914) are banned in the Soviet Union but are bestsellers in the West; and Natalya Svetlova, 34, mathematician and the mother of Solzhenitsyn's two sons; he for the third time (he was married twice to his first wife), she for the second; last month in Moscow...