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...Solzhenitsyn would have been treated in Stalin's day: "He would have been shot...
Four years later Stalin died, and in 1956 Nikita Khrushchev accused him of "intolerance, brutality and abuse of power." In 1962, Khrushchev ordered the publication of a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn that described the Soviet Union under Stalin's rule as one vast slave-labor camp. Stalin's statues, as numerous as trees in the Siberian taiga, were hewed down, and the city of Stalingrad became Volgograd...
...Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964 10. The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
...less strident than Sholokhov's attack was a report from the Russian Writers Union. The report, printed in the Literary Gazette, charged that Solzhenitsyn had "joined hands with the opponents of the Soviet social system," and that his two banned novels, which were published abroad over his vehement protests, "have become a weapon in the hands of our class enemies." The report even suggested that Solzhenitsyn leave Russia for the West, "where his anti-Soviet works and letters are always received with such delight...
Some Western specialists observed that the implied threat of exile may be a form of blackmail. They believe that Soviet authorities are playing on the only thing that Solzhenitsyn fears-expulsion from his beloved country-in the hope of finally silencing him. "All my life is here," Solzhenitsyn has said, "the homeland-I listen only to its sadness. I write only about...