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...official publication in 1962 of his concentration camp novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that Pravda hailed as a masterpiece. Nikita Khrushchev was, in a way, his patron; he had encouraged the publication of One Day as part of his own effort to discredit Stalin. But once Khrushchev himself was deposed, there followed for Solzhenitsyn a decade of increasingly dramatic confrontations with the authorities. His subsequent novels were banned, and he was regularly excoriated in the Soviet press...
...devastating, documented account of Lenin's and Stalin's reign of terror, the book was a reminder of how unfree Soviet society was, and still is. Moreover, as the Kremlin well knew, he had even more devastating revelations to make: five as yet unpublished sequels to Gulag deal with repression under Khrushchev and his successor Leonid Brezhnev. Soviet frustration was mixed with anger when the author declared that he would order all his banned work published abroad if he was arrested. Defying the regime to act against him, Solzhenitsyn answered a barrage of criticism in the Soviet press with ever...
...spent eleven years in Stalin's prisons, camps, and in exile, preparing himself to bear witness to what he had observed...
...arrest and deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn should not surprise the world, as it is a logical outgrowth of the greatest assault ever mounted on the human spirit, which began under Lenin and did not cease with the death of Stalin. What should surprise us is the fact that while we are momentarily outraged by the injustice done to one great man, we forget or ignore the grinding tyranny under which Soviet citizens live every day. Defenders of Solzhenitsyn are properly legion, but who has defended Raiza Palathnic, Slyvia Zalmanson, Sinyavsky and Daniels, the four Jewish dissidents convicted last week...
...reality, Solzhenitsyn and Vitkevich had exchanged letters criticizing Stalin when both were Red Army officers in World War II. Solzhenitsyn writes in Gulag that this was the cause of their imprisonment in 1945. After being confronted with the letters, Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years of hard labor, plus "perpetual exile"; Vitkevich got ten years, without exile. But last week Vitkevich claimed that Solzhenitsyn had betrayed him and three other people, including the writer's own wife, in order to get "a lighter sentence." As proof, Vitkevich alleged that when he was released in 1957, he was shown part...