Michael Scammell (Ed), Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
Books by Michael Scammell (Ed), Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
The Solzhenitsyn Files
by Michael Scammell (Ed), Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
This collection of material is an extraordinary demonstration of how much writers mattered in the Soviet Union. If you were a writer you sort of … mattered. Solzhenitsyn said that in the West a writer could go to the top of a mountain and flap his arms about like mad and nobody would take any notice, but in the Soviet Union if a writer stirred his hand in a certain way it sent shock waves through the viscous air.
Interviews where books by Michael Scammell (Ed), Catherine A. Fitzpatrick were recommended
The Best Books About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, recommended by Michael Nicholson
Russian literature specialist Michael Nicholson, Emeritus Fellow at University College, Oxford, talks us through the best books to learn more about the great Soviet dissident and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
