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Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978

Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978 Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/494/1301580/494emerson.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974 – 1978 (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018), 452 pp. + indexes It is a heady experience to reread Solzhenitsyn in the aftermath of Alexei Navalny’s heroic repatriation to Russia. Chemically poisoned in Tomsk, healed in a Berlin hospital, Navalny was promptly incarcerated once he returned home. “The very best thing in Russia now,” he told the Moscow court that sentenced him to prison early in February 2021, “are the people who aren’t afraid.” In his fearlessness and high- profile disgust, Navalny has a predecessor in Solzhenitsyn, also an outraged nationalist and charismatic survivor publicly contemptuous of a corrupt regime. Solzhenitsyn’s heroes, in Russia and the West, were also the unafraid. In 1974, having slipped Gulag Archipelago to the West before even a glimmer of glasnost, Solzhenitsyn was deported to West Germany. Settling his second wife and their children in Zurich, he searched for almost two years through northern Europe, Canada, and Alaska for a place to live that resembled the wilderness of Russia but would permit him to work. That place was eventually http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978

Emerson, Caryl
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (3) – Aug 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/3/494/1301580/494emerson.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974 – 1978 (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018), 452 pp. + indexes It is a heady experience to reread Solzhenitsyn in the aftermath of Alexei Navalny’s heroic repatriation to Russia. Chemically poisoned in Tomsk, healed in a Berlin hospital, Navalny was promptly incarcerated once he returned home. “The very best thing in Russia now,” he told the Moscow court that sentenced him to prison early in February 2021, “are the people who aren’t afraid.” In his fearlessness and high- profile disgust, Navalny has a predecessor in Solzhenitsyn, also an outraged nationalist and charismatic survivor publicly contemptuous of a corrupt regime. Solzhenitsyn’s heroes, in Russia and the West, were also the unafraid. In 1974, having slipped Gulag Archipelago to the West before even a glimmer of glasnost, Solzhenitsyn was deported to West Germany. Settling his second wife and their children in Zurich, he searched for almost two years through northern Europe, Canada, and Alaska for a place to live that resembled the wilderness of Russia but would permit him to work. That place was eventually

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