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...past two years, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia's greatest living writer, has been prevented from delivering the lecture that Nobel prizewinners customarily give. In 1970, when he won the award, Soviet officials forbade him to travel to Sweden for the solemn ceremony. Gunnar Jarring, Sweden's ambassador to Moscow, refused to transmit Solzhenitsyn's manuscript to Stockholm by diplomatic pouch. Last week the long-awaited lecture finally appeared in the yearbook of the Nobel Foundation, which did not disclose how it had been obtained...
...city apartment. Even the KGB (secret police) pays little attention to what the citizen does on weekends in the country. Prudent during the week, he may read proscribed books once he is secluded in his dacha. Among typical articles of private faith furnishing many dachas are Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, an LP of Hair, a photograph of Pasternak, and a bronze cross...
...domestic policy Brezhnev himself is a hardliner. He will probably still deal harshly with dissenters: on the eve of the summit, five Jewish leaders were arrested, and Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was once again denounced as an "opponent of Soviet reality." Many Americans have long hoped that an opening to the West and a better life for the Soviet consumer would bring about a more liberal political climate in Russia. But detente with the West does not necessarily mean detente within Russia. In fact, in cooperating with the West, the Soviets will have to face the problem of how to keep...
...Solzhenitsyn, whose patriotism is perfectly apparent in his writings, apparently decided to counter these absurd charges by calling worldwide attention to the slanderous campaign against him. He candidly told the American newsmen that "times have changed. They can't abuse people any more without its becoming known." That was an obvious reference to the growth of informed Russian public opinion through the circulation of samizdat (literally, self-publishing) news letters and broadcasts by Radio Liberty and other foreign stations. Solzhenitsyn said he was jotting down the most striking charges against him and the names of his detractors. "Perhaps...
...Solzhenitsyn spoke out only one week before he was to receive the medal and diploma of the Nobel Prize from Dr. Karl Ragnar Gierow, the secretary of the Swedish Academy. Gierow was to fly from Stockholm to hand them over to Solzhenitsyn in a modest ceremony in a private apartment in Moscow. It was a carefully arranged compromise: Solzhenitsyn had refused to go to Stockholm in 1970 to receive the award for fear the Soviets would not let him return, and Swedish Ambassador Gunnar Jarring later refused to allow a public presentation ceremony to take place in the Swedish embassy...