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On May 27, 1994, writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile. From the article:
"In May 1994, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to his native Russia via the Pacific port of Vladivostok and traveled extensively, meeting with thousands of people throughout the country. He continued to write prodigiously, publishing Between Two Millstones, a memoir of his years in the West; Russia in Collapse, which rounded out the quadrilogy of historical essays begun with Letter to the Soviet Leaders, Rebuilding Russia and The Russian Question; eight “two-part” stories, exploring a new genre; twelve essays of literary criticism on twentieth-century writers; and, in 2001-03, a work on the mutual history of the Russian and Jewish peoples in Russia, 200 Years Together: 1795-1995. In 1997 the Russian Academy of Sciences elected Solzhenitsyn as a member, and in 2007 awarded him the Russian State Prize. Meanwhile, 2006 saw the beginning of the publication of a major new 30-volume collected works. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow in 2008 at age 89."
"In May 1994, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to his native Russia via the Pacific port of Vladivostok and traveled extensively, meeting with thousands of people throughout the country. He continued to write prodigiously, publishing Between Two Millstones, a memoir of his years in the West; Russia in Collapse, which rounded out the quadrilogy of historical essays begun with Letter to the Soviet Leaders, Rebuilding Russia and The Russian Question; eight “two-part” stories, exploring a new genre; twelve essays of literary criticism on twentieth-century writers; and, in 2001-03, a work on the mutual history of the Russian and Jewish peoples in Russia, 200 Years Together: 1795-1995. In 1997 the Russian Academy of Sciences elected Solzhenitsyn as a member, and in 2007 awarded him the Russian State Prize. Meanwhile, 2006 saw the beginning of the publication of a major new 30-volume collected works. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow in 2008 at age 89."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center — Biography
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His works opened the eyes of a lot of red sympathizers and fellow travelers in the West. Suddenly it was not so cool to be a Marxist. Unfortunately, his effect has not seemed to last.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Exactly, it seems that people forget that the Russians, which many politicians want to cuddle up with today, are the Marxists of the Soviet Union.
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1LT Voyle Smith
I’m with you on that. Russian writers are a gloomy bunch and hard to read on a good day. But Solzhenitsyn was too deep into the gloom for me. I didn’t get very far into The Gulag when I chucked the book into the “read later” pile. That was about 30 years ago. Still not ready for it.
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He raised some of his children in Vermont. People who lived near him told me no one bothered him, protecting his privacy. One son is a classical musician, and sometime symphony conductor. I gather he was a strict in interpretation a Russian culture as an active Orthodox Christian. The kind of Russian I like and respect. Although I am not An Orthodox Christian, I am an eastern Christian, since we shared much of the same religious culture, and spirituality.
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