Re: [Marxism] Assessment of Solzhenitsyn in the Weekly Worker

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 12:17:55 +0100 "Paul Flewers"
<rfls12802@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> List members may be interested in my brief assessment of Solzhenitsyn 
> that
> appears in this week's Weekly Worker. It can be found at
> http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/735/solzhenitsyn.html.

I think it's a bit incomplete.  You should have said something
about his political views concerning post-Soviet Russia,
including his extreme antipathy towards Yeltsin's regime,
which he denounced as having been "worse than the
Communists," as well as his increasingly warm attitudes
towards Vladimir Putin, for whom he became a vocal
defender in his final years.  Solzhenitsyn made a point
of not holding Putin's KGB background against him.

Also, something perhaps should have been said about
the extent to which neo-Slavophile views have
become widespread in Russian academic and
intellectual circles.


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> Paul F
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