RUSS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Stateless Society, Nikita Khrushchev
23 Mar 2018
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Deep subtext for this relatively successful day. Tolstoy"s ideal of a reconciliation with one"s fate through resourcefulness and simple manual labour. Soviets borrowed but grotesquely distorted this motif. Turn social renegade into new soviet citizen through corrective labour. Primitive hand tools or no tools at all. Around 25,000 died of disease, hunger, exhaustion. New cigarette brand to commemorate the construction. Khrushchev born a peasant and raised to the top by himself. Soviet union embraced this type of figure. Knew about the crime and believed that it has to be stopped. Where everyone get everything they need and give as much as they can and work as much as they can. New repressions, arrests, trails, imprisonments of authors for publishing. Can"t kill this author now, can"t hide crime. Commit them to mental institutions or expel them from soviet. Exiled from the soviet union in 1974. After khrushchev"s speech was freed from exile. Khrushchev read it and approved and published it.
