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...Chronicle has become a main source of information for Soviet intellectuals. It broke the news of the arrest of three naval officers for having drafted an appeal for free speech (TIME, Oct. 31). It was the only publication in Russia to re port on such historical documents as Alexander Solzhenitsyn's letters to the Writers Union about the banning of his works. The Chronicle regularly offers listings of the latest officially forbidden books by both Western and Russian authors circulating in samizdat editions in the Soviet Union...
After the confirmation of his ouster, which was reportedly approved by the Politburo, Solzhenitsyn sent an open letter to the union in Moscow. "Wipe the dust off your watches," he wrote...
Even in the face of official Soviet persecution, Russia's greatest living writer remains true to his credo. Last week the clandestine texts became available of Solzhenitsyn's statements before a committee of literary bureaucrats who sought to expel him from the local branch of the Soviet Writers Union in the town of Ryazan, 115 miles southeast of Moscow. "I am ready to accept even death, not only expulsion from the union," he told his accusers, who charge him with allowing his books to be published in the West. "Vote! You can vote. You are in the majority...
Stalinist Crimes. Solzhenitsyn spoke in his own defense at the Ryazan meeting, which took place two weeks ago. The leader of the attack on Solzhenitsyn was a hack writer named Vasily Matushkin. He conceded that he had never read Solzhenitsyn's novels The First Circle and Cancer Ward, which are banned in the Soviet Union because they are a devastating portrayal of conditions in Stalin's concentration camps. Matushkin, however, contended that the West uses the books "to throw mud on our motherland." "How do you explain that they so eagerly print you in the West?" he asked...
Literary Unperson. The local union expelled him anyhow, and last week the executive committee of the Russian Writers Union in Moscow confirmed the expulsion order. As a result, Solzhenitsyn has become an unperson in the Soviet literary community. He is deprived of all the perquisites of union membership, including loans for needy writers, the use of vacation retreats, and freedom to establish residence anywhere in the Soviet Union...