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...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses." I submit that our Congress needs to reach higher to have a beneficial influence on our society and that it has so far been paralyzed by ignoble impulses. COREY BRUNISH Lake Oswego...
...GULAG ARCHIPELAGO (1974) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's massive account of Stalinist terrors, some of it written in the first person, made headlines in the West when its existence became known. It was the most authoritative indictment of the Soviet system ever published, and it came from within the U.S.S.R. The author was expelled...
...going on over there? And then he answers in a series of brilliantly etched close-ups that when read together have a cumulative, pointillist impact. Remnick shows readers Yeltsin's civil war with the Russian parliament, the populated rubble of Chechnya, the return of the unhonored prophet Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the offices of the new business czars, and the salons of Moscow's intelligentsia. He likes to put you in a room where important people carry on thought-provoking discussions. In one intense conversation, satirical novelist Vladimir Voinovich laments that the party big shots and KGB bosses quickly betrayed the ideology...
...paper and pen, and then a typewriter. From his own memory and what his prison mates could recall, he copied down the novels that would shame the Suharto dictatorship by taking on the name of its island prison and give the stubborn writer a reputation as Indonesia's Solzhenitsyn. And thus, so it is widely believed, make him Asia's leading candidate for a Nobel Prize...
...would actually pursue in a second term. Yegor Gaidar, the former Prime Minister who lost his job in Yeltsin's purge of Western-leaning officials, is only one who says he is "not persuaded that the President will promote liberal reform" if he is returned to office. Indeed, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's gloomy observation of two years ago seems even more apt: "The system that governs us is a combination of the old nomenklatura, the sharks of finance, false democrats and the kgb. I cannot call this democracy...and we do not know in which direction it will develop...