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So I found a translation of that article and another article by the author. It seems like the gripe is that Solzhenitsyn wrote about some Bolsheviks and gulag c
by ch4s3 5y ago
So I found a translation of that article and another article by the author. It seems like the gripe is that Solzhenitsyn wrote about some Bolsheviks and gulag camp administrators in a way that drew attention to their Jewish identity, and that leads some critics to believe he was in fact an anti-semite. Is that a fair reading?
I don't actually see any evidence that his portrayal of life in the Soviet Union was anything but accurate, at least from the perspectives available to him at the time. I'm sure there were a great many possible life experiences, especially for people born after the terror, but the terror too was part of the Soviet experience.