Fifty years ago, I was a copy editor at the Beaumont, Texas Enterprise. In December of `973, we began receiving a series of alerts from the New York Times News Service, saying the Times had acquired a manuscript of worldwide importance and would be publishing soon. The manuscript was The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Solzhenitsyn was living in the Soviet Union at the time. The manuscript had been circulating in samizdat there, and apparently the KGB had gotten its hands on a copy or a portion of a copy. A considerable amount had already been smuggled out to the West. To protect his friends and family, Solzhenitsyn gave the green light to publishing the work in the West, and it would soon be published in French, its first published language, and an English translation was underway.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Some Wednesday Readings
Tales from the road: The kid who died in Mrs. Cross’ yard – John Banks at Civil War Blog.
Winter Rabbits – Carter Johnson at Front Porch Republic.
“Democracy is too prevalent in America” Thomas Gage Arrive in Boston – Rob Orrison at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
The good news about the left’s growing resort to intimidation – Lewis Andrews at The Spectator.
How Hadrian’s Wall is Revealing a Hidden Side of Roman History – Julia Buckley at CNN.
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