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...What do you think of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's remarks at Harvard about Western society...
Dictators have always understood the accusatory power of photographs. The vast unphotographed domain of the Gulag archipelago became reality in Western minds only through the frenzied memory and meticulous detail of Solzhenitsyn. Reports of Hitler's death camps were repeatedly denied until photographers were able to fix forever in the mind the piles of corpses at Auschwitz and Dachau. Cambodia may have endured the crudest slaughter of a people since Hitler's time, but the evidence had to be pieced together from the individual accounts of fleeing Cambodians. The events they describe overlap, so that estimates...
...Commencement, however, for waking up from a reading period stupor. There is, as the man once said, "always something" to slap you in the face, to dash a little cold water at you before you start out on a hot summer day. The slap this year came from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who journeyed down from exile in Vermont to pick up an honorary degree and chide America for flabby morals and a lack of purpose. The national press took note, as it usually does when people start talking about morals or anything else at a Harvard Commencement, and even the First...
...Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ·American Caesar, William Manchester ·E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank ·In Search of History, Theodore H. White ·Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ·The Annotated Shakespeare, A.L. Rowse ·The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
...Barbara W. Tuchman∙American Caesar, William Manchester∙E.M. Forster: A Life, P.N. Furbank∙In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie∙ Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn...