Showing posts with label Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Show all posts
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Freedom fighter
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online interviews Natalia Solzhenitsyn, the widow of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Reading list
Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum.
This is an overdue book, since historians have not given the history of the Soviet Union the attention it deserves. In her introduction, Applebaum attempts to give an explanation for why this is so.
Applebaum shows that, contrary to popular belief, the existence of the extensive system of Soviet prisons was a known fact for many decades. She also finds that Alexander Solzhenitsyn (author of Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956) was correct in his assertion that the Gulag system was not some aberration of an otherwise humane Soviet system (the view of many scholars even today), buy a key factor in it very existence.
This is an overdue book, since historians have not given the history of the Soviet Union the attention it deserves. In her introduction, Applebaum attempts to give an explanation for why this is so.
Applebaum shows that, contrary to popular belief, the existence of the extensive system of Soviet prisons was a known fact for many decades. She also finds that Alexander Solzhenitsyn (author of Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956) was correct in his assertion that the Gulag system was not some aberration of an otherwise humane Soviet system (the view of many scholars even today), buy a key factor in it very existence.
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