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...Russian bells—on Sunday. The Danilov bells—which preceded the current set—were donated to Harvard by an American industrialist Charles R. Crane in 1930. They narrowly escaped the fate of most other Russian bells that were, at the time, being destroyed by Stalin??s regime. They were returned in 2008 to their original home, the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, after many years of negotiations, in exchange for the new set of 17 bells that now hang in Lowell’s Bell Tower. Channing...
...renewed arms dealings between Russia and Iran. Since then, Putin has signed a $1 billion arms deal with Iran and supported Iran’s nuclear ambitions. During Putin’s 2007 visit to Tehran, the first trip to the Iranian capital by a Kremlin leader since Joseph Stalin??s visit in 1943, Putin and Iranian President Ahmadinejad discussed Iran’s nuclear energy program...
Russian novelist and dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died last month at the age of 89. A celebrated author, his series of novels—including his most renowned, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”—meticulously documented the monstrous crimes of Stalin??s regime and eventually won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. The effusive stream of eulogies that poured in from across the world and the political spectrum might lead us to think that Solzhenitsyn ranks with George Orwell as one of the century?...
...natural decision was to send it to the Soviet Union. Who knows what nemesis state would even have it today, or whether we’d have the cajones to send it to them? Kim Jong-Il would probably like it, but he seems like small (crazy) potatoes after Stalin??s enormous (crazy) feast.Now, when Harvard undergraduates invoke the father of communism, it’s not as a political herald but as a conversation piece for social studies concentrators. Even then, Marx is a little too mainstream; when trying to communicate one’s extraordinary acquaintance...
...bells being delivered from Russia to Harvard, with the rest slated to be installed in Lowell House next summer. The new set is coming to Cambridge in exchange for Harvard’s historic bells from Danilov Monastery in Moscow, which an American industrialist purchased from Josef Stalin??s Soviet Union and gave to the University in 1930. When the bells arrived over 70 years ago, 17 of them went to Lowell House. But one was sent across the Charles River after a bell expert determined that two of them were too close in tone to be sounded...