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Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn may be too celebrated to imprison, but there are other ways for the Kremlin to harass rebellion. The Soviets have just thrown a smokescreen over Solzhenitsyn's novel, August, 1914, by publishing 100,000 copies of Barbara Tuchman's 1962 history of the same period, The Guns of August. (Mrs. Tuchman, who was neither consulted nor paid, said the Soviet tactic was "absurd" because "Solzhenitsyn and I come to much the same conclusions.") As another harassment the Russian Supreme Court undertook to review Solzhenitsyn's 1971 divorce decree from his first wife...
...Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Bach (1 last week) 2-The Odessa File, Forsyth (2) 3-August 1914, Solzhenitsyn (3) 4-Semi-Tough, Jenkins (4) 5-The Persian Boy, Renault (5) 6-The Camerons, Crichton (6) 7-Elephants Can Remember, Christie (9) 8-The Eiger Sanction, Travanian (7) 9-Dust on the Sea, Beach (8) 10-Green Darkness, Seton
...anyone with a Nobel Prize and a novel currently on the bestseller lists be financially "desperate"? That is Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's own word for his own situation. His books are banned in the U.S.S.R. and his royalties are piling up in Switzerland, where he cannot get at them. As word of his plight spread, some unusual Samaritans offered to help. First came Hollywood Writer Albert Maltz, once jailed and blacklisted for refusing to tell a congressional committee whether he was a Communist. Maltz said that the Soviets owe him some $34,000 in royalties on his writing...
AUGUST 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Russia's defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg during World War I. Badly translated but monumental...
...August 1914, Solzhenitsyn...