May 06, 2011
Search results for "solzhenitsyn"
May 06, 2011
Samuel Gregg: Benedict XVI in ‘No One’s Shadow’
October 28, 2010
Russian students get a new, shorter Gulag Archipelago. What about Americans?
July 21, 2010
Cardinal Pell on Global Warming, Western Civilization
June 11, 2010
Review: William F. Buckley Jr.
May 13, 2010
Digging in to the crimes of communism
Having recently finished reading Jean-François Revel’s Last Exit to Utopia – in which he excoriates leftist intellectuals for ignoring the crimes of communist totalitarianism and their efforts to resurrect the deadly ideology – and having just read a few more chapters of Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago over lunch, it seems providential that I would stumble across this article at City Journal on the failure of researchers to seriously dig into the now-available archives of the Soviet Union:
Pavel Stroilov, a Russian exile in London, has on his computer 50,000 unpublished, untranslated, top-secret Kremlin documents, mostly dating from the close of the Cold War. Continue Reading...
March 29, 2010
Review: When Hell Was in Session
November 23, 2009
Review: Rendezvous with Destiny
November 12, 2009
Acton Commentary: After the Berlin Wall — the Enduring Power of Socialism
November 09, 2009
The fall of the Berlin Wall: Reminiscence and reflection
Excerpts from remarks delivered at the Acton Institute annual dinner in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Oct. 29, 2009:
Twenty years ago today, a growing tide of men and women in Eastern Europe and northern Asia were shaking off the miasma that had led so many to imagine that central economic planning could work. Continue Reading...