Tag Archives: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

call of the wild: frozen delirium

Delirium. Soviet Union. It’s what is not us, not only separate from us but alien,and so different that to confuse with us is to flirt with madness, like a visceral fear of mad love, a temporary insanity that may have … Continue reading

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bourgeois manners

…Bourgeois manners for the Bolshevik masses? With the thaw of de-Stalinization, or at least thaw to them , came a new concern: government sanctioned ways of helping the Soviet citizen improve his mind and conduct himself more in accord with … Continue reading

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