Topic: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
In the bottom shelf of the bookcase of her lounge, my grandmother keeps a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica - an invaluable resource in my...
0 View Larger Image Apricot Jam and Other Stories By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; translated by Kenneth Lantz and Stephan Solzhenitsyn (Counterpoint;...
Those involved in demonstrations in New York, Toronto and elsewhere have either been dismissed as a bunch of directionless malcontents or have been...
Every so often, you come across a narrative of courage under suffering that is so well reported, so restrained and sensitive in its intelligence...
Keeping calm and carrying on Is it just us, or do Norwegians seem be dealing with Anders Behring Breivik's atrocity better than just about everyone...
Don't fill in this field Focal Point Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . This week, I joined the Sidney Hillman Foundation as the lead blogger for...
By Ian Hunter. . On January 14, Pope Benedict XVI announced that his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, will be beatified in Rome on May 1...
Paolo Cocco/Reuters. The late Pope John Paul II. . On January 14, Pope Benedict XVI announced that his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, will be...
The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 radically changed Russian literature. First, a tradition of emigre literature, containing some of the best works of the century, continued until the fall of the Soviet Union. Second, unofficial literature written within the Soviet Union ...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences of the Soviet penal system are the best known presentation made for the west. In his own life time until the closing phase of the Soviet Union the books were repressed or published abroad. 'One Day in the ...
