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Rebuilding Russia
When it was published in 1990, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's (1918-2008) traditionalist prescription for pulling Russia out of its difficulties was seen as out of touch with the times. Since then, many of the ideas the author expounded have become commonplaces in the culture of Russian revanchism.
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Solzhenitsyn's Return
In 1994, Alexander Solzhenitsyn staged a theatrical return to Russia, flying from America to Magadan, then returning by train from Vladivostok to Moscow. The journey and the salvific importance Solzhenitsyn attached to it soon became the target of much derision, as well as some praise.
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Yelena Bonner: "Nothing Interests Me Less than This Problem"
M. Gessen interview with Yelena Bonner (1923-2011), wife of Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident and nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), published in the LGBTQ magazine "Tema."
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