Have you read Solzhenitsyn's Two Hundred Years Together - on Jews and nonJews in Russia. I've read a few chapters. Jews neither as victims nor as monster predators - but definitely not as saints. Solzhenitsyn spent his last 10 years on this. I haven't read it all so I can't comment on it all - but it seems to have gone into that hot water area of not accepting the dominant narrative about poor victim Jews.
So have it. There was no controversy about that book. I was interested in 200 Years Together because it did not even get published in translation. I found translations of different chapters, and pulled them together for a friend who wanted to read the book - which I consider very worthwhile. What is it that this book, from someone of this author's stature, did not even get published?
The Gulag book was useful to the agenda of the time. But his overall writings are dangerous to our political state as well. So he was not allowed to become a literary A-lister, like Truman Capote.
I appreciated your presentation of findings. Understanding what's going on - quite a challenge. And then toward the end - the reference to Cal Washington. An interesting surprise.
Have you read Solzhenitsyn's Two Hundred Years Together - on Jews and nonJews in Russia. I've read a few chapters. Jews neither as victims nor as monster predators - but definitely not as saints. Solzhenitsyn spent his last 10 years on this. I haven't read it all so I can't comment on it all - but it seems to have gone into that hot water area of not accepting the dominant narrative about poor victim Jews.
No. I have read The Gulag Archipelago however.
So have it. There was no controversy about that book. I was interested in 200 Years Together because it did not even get published in translation. I found translations of different chapters, and pulled them together for a friend who wanted to read the book - which I consider very worthwhile. What is it that this book, from someone of this author's stature, did not even get published?
The Gulag book was useful to the agenda of the time. But his overall writings are dangerous to our political state as well. So he was not allowed to become a literary A-lister, like Truman Capote.
I believe, about 200 Years Together, it was more than that - it was not even published in English - a-list, f-list, z-list
Yes, it's suppression.
Someone wants this suporessed. Yes.
I appreciated your presentation of findings. Understanding what's going on - quite a challenge. And then toward the end - the reference to Cal Washington. An interesting surprise.