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Article: The enduring achievement of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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- Ave Maria Law Review
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- March 22, 2008
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In an old joke from the Soviet era, a teacher asks the class, "Who was Leonid Brezhnev?" and a schoolgirl replies, "Wasn't he some politician in the Age of Solzhenitsyn?" It didn't take anywhere near a century for Brezhnev's name to pass into oblivion. Trouble is, Solzhenitsyn's name disappeared too. Here's a conversation I frequently have. Someone asks what I am doing these days, in the leisure of my retirement. I reply, "Writing." Other person: "What on?" I: "Solzhenitsyn." Other person: "what?" Notice: not "who (or Whom)?" but "what?" If the other person regards himself as well-educated, I then say, "The greatest living writer in the world today." The other person ...
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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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