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KGB agents tried to kill Solzhenitsyn. Soviet newspapers organized a witch hunt. Against this background, expulsion from the Writers' Union was a petty dirty trick. In the end, he was simply expelled from the country. And all because of works that told an inconvenient truth. This is the story of how one writer challenged the entire Soviet system. And won! BOOKS: • Georges Nivat. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: fighter and writer. • Yuri Saprykin, Lev Oborin and others. "Solzhenitsyn. Controversies around the anniversary." ???? LIVE PERFORMANCES Lecture "Is Russia doomed to dictatorship?" USA: • Miami — November 7 • Houston — November 12 • Raleigh — November 14 • Palo Alto — March 7 • Los Angeles — March 9 • Seattle — March 11 Info and tickets: https://eidelman.ru/ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL • For foreign cards — / eidelman • For Russian cards — https://boosty.to/eidelman/ • Support the release of new history lessons by becoming a sponsor on YouTube — / @tamaraeidelmanhistory Using cryptocurrency: BTC: bc1qepf70kndy4ce6yxg6vxh9j98utx690w529fl9s ETH: 0x0Ebc2cCcD4Fd705CfFC5F25B271871df71c8332B USDT: 0x8d0B26D5f58e4a1B2Cc702C431CB7B444F9452F6 (ERC20 network) USDT: TC5eXDPz8TuXPiHLDLbGkmN2rnQkg3Qe5W (TRC20 network) FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL NETWORKS Instagram — / tamaraeidelman Telegram channel — https://t.me/eidelman * Facebook — / eidelmantn Twitter — / tamaraeidelman TikTok — / tamaraeidelmanhistory Text version — https://tamaraeidelman.com/ #history #eidelman #solzhenitsyn 00:00:00 Introduction. Lecture topic 00:01:20 Announcement of a lecture tour in the USA 00:01:56 Meeting with Putin. Solzhenitsyn — a subject of controversy at all times 00:08:47 Fighter, warrior and revolutionary 00:12:05 War, arrest, exile, the fight against cancer 00:15:55 The beginning of Solzhenitsyn's path as an underground worker 00:18:28 The first edition of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" in "Novy Mir" 00:21:20 The KGB's interest in the writer. The beginning of work on "The Gulag Archipelago" 00:28:09 The desire to protest and the need to continue working 00:32:33 "Lenin in Zurich" — analogies with the author 00:35:38 "The calf butted the oak tree." Relationship with Tvardovsky and "Novy Mir" 00:48:15 The idea of being the chosen one. The Voice of Many — from “I” to “We” 00:56:42 The writer’s thoughts on the nature of “executioners” 01:00:48 Arguments with Varlam Shalamov. Is it possible to “say yes to life” in a camp? 01:07:30 Journalistic activity, speeches and “lectures”. Analogy with Tolstoy 01:13:39 Collection of articles “From under the boulders”. Argument with Sakharov and his own path of development 01:19:58 Parody of Solzhenitsyn in Samoilov’s “Strufiana” 01:24:35 Harvard speech. Article “How can we organize Russia” 01:36:34 “Living without lies”. The relevance of Solzhenitsyn’s lessons