I used A Day in the Life in my classes for more than 20 years. Students like it too. Along these lines some might find Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon informative. It's a very compelling portrayal of the Stalin's great purge. Between these two books we see the effects of communist Russia on an ordinary citizen and a military hero.
Solzhenitsyn wrote his earlier works before his travels to the west. They were good and relevant reading at the time. The much more important work from Solzhenitsyn is “Between two Millstones” and his warnings to the west, that went mostly unheeded, in his opinion, about the dangers of socialism.
Profoundly relevant.
Best, Ted
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The much more important work from Solzhenitsyn is “Between two Millstones” and his warnings to the west, that went mostly unheeded, in his opinion, about the dangers of socialism.
Profoundly relevant.
So it’s basically like what Lenin said, you know, you look for who will benefit and uh, uh . . .
Lonesome, I thinks the most problematic issue that Prizoghon presents to Putin and his media mouthpieces, at home and abroad, is that he started speaking truth to power when he became disfavored.
Hopefully, we will not need George Orwell to remind us again of the immediate and prolonged dangers of socialism. Stalin thought that being the counter of the votes was most important. Honest elections should be the U.S.goal. It is a commentary on Russian leadership that the last two major leaders were former directors of the KGB. As a combat veteran who has actually fought communism in Indo -China, my judgment indicates we are fast eroding the basic rights and freedoms a previous generation fought hard to protect.
We should well be conservative, because there is much to conserve.
______________________________________________ It is not the critic who counts..., the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena ... T. Roosevelt Only the dead have seen the end of war- Plato
Hopefully, we will not need George Orwell to remind us again of the immediate and prolonged dangers of socialism.
Hi 1916XE,
You may be interested in learning that Orwell wrote about the immediate and prolonged dangers of fascism & totalitarianism, and that he was pro democratic socialism according to his non fiction writings.
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