Great Quotes From Great People

[benstt]

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

That is a good one.

 

[Bassbob]

Cool. I'll look for that one.

You need to read “ The Gulag Archipelago “. Seriously.

 

[C. Sumpin]

You need to read “ The Gulag Archipelago “. Seriously.

And "One Day in The Life Ivan Denisovich" and "Cancer Ward" and "First Circle" and many more.

Brain Capacity: While in the prison camps in Siberia where it was illegal to possess written material, Solzenitsyn would scratch tiny notes/statistics/non fiction, commit them to memory, then destroy the notes. The original "Gulag" was just under 2000 pages in three volumes written from memory!

 

[chovorka]

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.( Einstein)

 

[the obsrver]

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous, and its speaker a raving lunatic."
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[benstt]

You need to read “ The Gulag Archipelago “. Seriously.

I'm always looking for new reading materials. I'm fairly sick of presidential biographies. Lincoln was fascinating but I only made it a little ways into "Team of Rivals."

 

[Bassbob]

I'm always looking for new reading materials. I'm fairly sick of presidential biographies. Lincoln was fascinating but I only made it a little ways into "Team of Rivals."

I read Solzhenitsyn when I was in my early teens. It profoundly affected me. In college I took more Russian history than any other subject. I’m particularly interested in the period between Kievan Rus and the destruction of the Romanov dynasty, but I’m pretty well read on the period from the revolution to the present as well. Solzhenitsyn gives you a perspective of the Soviet Union and the Bolsheveiks that is unusual to get from regular Russian history books.

 

[C. Sumpin]

I read Solzhenitsyn when I was in my early teens. It profoundly affected me. In college I took more Russian history than any other subject. I’m particularly interested in the period between Kievan Rus and the destruction of the Romanov dynasty, but I’m pretty well read on the period from the revolution to the present as well. Solzhenitsyn gives you a perspective of the Soviet Union and the Bolsheveiks that is unusual to get from regular Russian history books.

Peculiar thing; at the height of his popularity many college students ridiculed him, not believing his writings were relevant. As incredulous as it seems, there are always a fair number in the population of Communist nations that support it!