I’m trying to remember when I first became interested in Russian history. Most likely, when I was 10, and one of my Christmas presents (my mother knew me) was a Horizon Caravel book entitled Russia Under the Czars. I must have read it a dozen times. And I still have it.
My senior year in high school, I discovered Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, and The First Circle. In college, I took two semesters of Russian history, and I was glad I knew more about Russia’s past than most people. The professor was a great lecturer; he was also an unapologetic defender of the Soviet regime.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Some Wednesday Readings
Is Carney’s Davos sermon the way forward? – David Robertson at Christian Today.
Only Mozart – Joseph Sobran at The Imaginative Conservative.
How Holocaust Denial Became Mainstream – Simon Sebag Montefiore at The Free Press.
