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Article: The ikon and the latrine bucket: the world of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. (analysis of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novels)
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- Contemporary Review
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- July 1, 1993
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|I LYICH, is it your turn to take out the latrine bucket?', one prisoner asked another in a crammed cell in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow in the Spring of 1945. The question was overheard by a twenty-six year old captain of artillery, newly arrested for veiled, though disparaging, remarks about Stalin contained in a letter to a friend which had been intercepted. The young captain shuddered with a sense of outrage. Ilyich happened to be Lenin's patronymic as well as that of the prisoner addressed. The brilliant young officer felt disgust that the name should be uttered in the same sentence as |latrine bucket' and also felt that it was somehow wrong to call anyone but Lenin ...
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Transcript: Solzhenitsyn Shook Soviet System's Foundation
NPR Morning Edition;
August 4, 2008 ;
700+ words
... ... NPR Morning Edition 08-04-2008 Solzhenitsyn Shook Soviet System's Foundation ... writers of the 20th century. Alexander Solzhenitsyn recorded some of that century's brutality ... literature. The novella brought Alexander Solzhenitsyn to the attention of the world and the ...
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