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...been expelled from the Soviet Writers' Union and threatened with exile from his country. The official press regularly denounces him; only last week the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya, in a poem that did not name Solzhenitsyn but was plainly aimed at him, charged that he "long ago defected with his soul...
Uneasy as his situation may be at home, Solzhenitsyn is also concerned by a growing menace to his freedom from abroad. Several of his manuscripts have come into the hands of American and European publishers. At least one of the manuscripts could only have been obtained and passed on by the KGB, the Soviet secret police. None were released by Solzhenitsyn, who is categorically opposed to publication of his work in the West. He has already been accused of sending his banned writings abroad to be exploited by Russia's enemies, and of allowing his royalties...
...Solzhenitsyn is trying to combat the threats to him on two fronts. He has pressed Soviet authorities for an answer to the question "Why do you refuse to publish me in Russia?" To prevent unauthorized publication of his works in the West, he has repeatedly and vainly asked the Soviet Writers' Union to protect his author's rights. Now that he has been expelled from the union, Solzhenitsyn has engaged a Swiss lawyer, Fritz Heeb, to balk what he regards as "the exploitation and distortion" of his work by publishers in the West. In Zurich last week, Heeb...
...Solzhenitsyn won fame in 1962 when Nikita Khrushchev authorized the publication in Russia of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a chilling indictment of Stalin-era labor camps. In 1966, however, Solzhenitsyn's writings were banned. Manuscripts that Solzhenitsyn had previously submitted to Soviet publishers began circulating from hand to hand in Russia. The KGB seized others from the writer. As a result, a number of novels, stories, poems and plays have been peddled to Western publishers by shadowy figures claiming to be "representatives" of the author. Sometimes the items for sale were accompanied by purported authorizations...
...copy of TIME that tipped Solzhenitsyn off to the fact that one of his major new works was in the West. To his consternation and alarm, Solzhenitsyn read in the magazine's issue of March 21, 1969, that Western publishers were eagerly bidding for his massive documentary novel about Stalinist concentration camps, Arkhipelag Gulag...