[lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 (NY Times)

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It's been many many years since S published anything that wasn't a disgrace. He was gone a long time ago. His early accomplishments were considerable. The Red Wheel, The History of the Jews in Russia, are spine-chilling, and in the end he succumbed to irrationalism and Slavophilia.

--- On Sun, 8/3/08, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89  (NY Times)
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, August 3, 2008, 8:26 PM
> Excuse me while I laugh. Solzhenitsyn was qualifiedly
> pro-Putin. He approved of Putin's foreign policy and his
> vector in general, while disapproving of what he saw as the
> continuities with the Yeltsin era, that is, elitism.
> 
> I'm sad. Only Medveden and Yevtushenko are left. :(
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 8/3/08, Jim Farmelant
> <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
> > Later, he criticized the rise of Vladimir V. Putin as
> > antidemocratic. 
> > 
> 
> 
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