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Despite the intensity of a campaign of vilification by Soviet authorities, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russia's Nobel-prizewinning novelist, for years refused to discuss with foreigners the charges against him. His best-known works (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First Circle) deal mainly with the victims of Stalinist terror. Last week, in a dramatic departure from his earlier reticence, Solzhenitsyn talked with two Western newsmen about his own precarious existence under an increasingly hostile regime. Said he: "A kind of forbidden contaminated zone has been created around my family...
Ominous Charge. Over berry juice and a homemade fruitcake, Solzhenitsyn complained that, among other things, he was continually being spied upon, that his visitors were harassed and intimidated, and that his wife had been fired from her post as a mathematician at the Institute of the International Workers Movement. He also declared that his efforts to collect research for a new book called October 1916 were handicapped by officials. "You Westerners cannot imagine my situation," he said. "I live in my own country; I write a novel about Russia. But it is as hard for me to gather material...
...Solzhenitsyn's decision to hold his first major interview ever with Western correspondents was undoubtedly caused by his fear of a Soviet propaganda campaign against him, which has grown stronger in recent months. The most ominous charge made is that he collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. According to Solzhenitsyn, this slander has been repeated by agitprop lecturers at closed meetings in schools, government offices, factories and military units throughout Russia. "Behind closed doors you can make a gullible people believe any lie," said Solzhenitsyn, a former artillery captain who was decorated three times for bravery. "They...
Undaunted Spirit. Now the Soviet authorities are making the charge public, perhaps as prelude to criminal proceedings that might lead to Solzhenitsyn's arrest or his expulsion from the Soviet Union. In a recent review of his latest book-August 1914, which deals with the start of World War I-a critic writing in Moscow's Literary Gazette asserted that Solzhenitsyn had desired a Nazi victory in World War II. More important, at week's end the big trade union newspaper Trud, which often reflects the views of Alexander Shelepin, former chief of the KGB (secret police...
...repolished," he said. "The times keep progressing, and our thinking must keep progressing." Teng is familiar with the major Russian works of the Lenin and Stalin eras, as well as with such writers as Chekhov, Pushkin, Hemingway, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. But he had never heard of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, or of any contemporary American novelists...