Ignat Solzhenitsyn Speaks at Benedictine
/Ignat Solzhenitsyn spoke recently at Benedictine College on his father’s legacy, reading passages from Solzhenitsyn’s works, including his Miniatures, and answering questions from the audience.
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Watch March 1917, Book 3 launch
/Here below is the webcast of the March-3 book launch that took place this past Thursday, 7th October, with panelists Daniel Mahoney, Marian Schwartz, and Stepan Solzhenitsyn, moderated by Kennan Institute director Matthew Rojansky, discussing the new book.
Thu, 7 Oct: book launch for March 1917, Book 3
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This Thursday, 7th October, at 2pm New York (7pm London, 9pm Moscow), watch the live webcast with panelists Daniel Mahoney, Marian Schwartz, and Stepan Solzhenitsyn discussing the new book. Send your questions by email to kennan@wilsoncenter.org, or tweet @KennanInstitute.
WATCH BTM-2 BOOK LAUNCH AT KENNAN INSTITUTE
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In Book 2 of Between Two Millstones, just released by the University of Notre Dame Press, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn details his final years of exile in America from 1978 until his return to post-Communist Russia in 1994. During this time, while completing his masterwork The Red Wheel, Solzhenitsyn was both confronted by the propaganda machine of the Soviet state and the commercial mainstream media in the West. In this book talk, Ignat Solzhenitsyn and Daniel J. Mahoney will discuss Solzhenitsyn’s fight against the communist regime while defending the honor of Russia’s historic past. They will also consider how he watched as Russia came out from under the rubble of the Soviet system into a deeply flawed transition.
Watch BTM-2 book launch
/Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney, and Carter Snead discuss the second part of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s memoirs of exile in the West, "Between Two Millstones, Book 2" and the importance of Solzhenitsyn's work today.
WATCH DEAVEL/WILSON BOOK LAUNCH
/The Murphy Institute sponsored book launch event for the text Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West due to be released on October 31.
Here is video of the 3 November 2020 book launch for Solzhenitsyn and American Culture with David Deavel, Jessica Hooten Wilson, Gary Saul Morson, and Daniel J. Mahoney.
Richard Tempest Online Book Presentation coming up on 9 Apr
/On Thursday, April 9 from 4:30–5:30 p.m., the Russian and East European Studies Programand the Department of Historyare inviting Seton Hall students and guests to participate in an online book presentation by one of the world's preeminent Solzhenitsyn scholars, Prof. Richard Tempest (University of Illinois). Professor Tempest will discuss his latest book, Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Fictive Words (Academic Press, 2019).
Mahoney speaks about The Red Wheel in Washington, DC
/Russian Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is the author of two great “literary cathedrals,” The Gulag Archipelago and The Red Wheel, the latter of which is an account of Russia’s path to revolution and totalitarianism in the years culminating in 1917. In the third volume of The Red Wheel, entitled March 1917, the story arrives at “the revolution at last.” At the Kennan Institute a few days ago, Professor Daniel Mahoney discussed March 1917 in relation to The Red Wheel as a whole – that is August 1914, October 1916, the four books of March 1917, and the two books of April 1917. The just published English-language version of March 1917, Book 2, a work of both literature and dramatic history, chronicles the fateful days of March 13-15, which led to the collapse of the autocracy and the origins of the Russian Revolution.
Listen above.
Solzhenitsyn "Apartment-Museum" opens in Moscow
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Solzhenitsyn apartment-museum at 12 Tverskaya street, apt. 169 in Moscow.
Fearless Prophets: Martin Luther King Jr. & Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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A few days ago Princeton University hosted a panel discussion entitled Fearless Prophets: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of King's Death and the Centenary of Solzhenitsyn's Birth, and featuring:
Daniel Mahoney, Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship, Assumption College;
Eugene F. Rivers, III, Founding Director, Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies;
David L. Tubbs *01, Associate Professor of Politics, The King's College.
It was moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University.
See the video of the event here.
PRESIDENT PUTIN UNVEILS SOLZHENITSYN MONUMENT
/At a ceremony today on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Street in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new monument of Solzhenitsyn. (Scroll down for video.)
11 December 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the new Moscow monument to Solzhenitsyn.
“Aleksandr Isayevich believed that, without understanding our country’s past, there could be no sensible path toward its future. And so he trained his thought and words onto her future, in an attempt to identify possible ways of rebuilding Russia, so that the dramatic and profoundly difficult trials that fell to her would never again repeat, so that our multinational people could live in dignity and justice. That is how he saw his mission, his goal, the point of his service.”
TONIGHT: Live Webcast from Moscow Art Theatre
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Tonight's "main event", with theatre and film star Yevgeny Mironov, from Chekhov's legendary Moscow Art Theatre, will be webcast live at 19h00 Moscow time (0300 Sydney, 16h00 London, 11h00 New York).
Solzhenitsyn Centenary at NY Public Library
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Panel discussion this coming Wed, 12th December at 6.30pm at NYPL. More info here.
A Slew of Moscow Events to Mark Solzhenitsyn Centennial
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There is a slew of upcoming events in Moscow to mark the peak of the Solzhenitsyn Centennial. Highlights include the première of a new production of the Alexander Tchaikovsky opera “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”, conducted by Ignat Solzhenitsyn at the Bolshoi Theatre; the international conference “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Looking Back from the 21st Century”; and a special theatrical production starring Evgeni Mironov at the legendary Moscow Art Theatre. See here for a more comprehensive list.
Cavendish to Celebrate Solzhenitsyn's Centennial on 2 December
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Cavendish's celebration of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 100th birthday will take place on Sunday Dec. 2, 4 pm at the Cavendish Baptist Church. There will be a screening of his farewell address to Cavendish, discussion, and a potluck supper. The Cavendish Historical Society will be providing refreshments. The snow date is Dec. 9 at the same time and place. FMI: margocaulfield@icloud.com or 802-226-7807.
Oxford lecture and exhibition
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Renowned Solzhenitsyn scholar will present a lecture at Oxford University on 23 November 2018, in conjunction with a centenary exhibition that will run through 17 December. More details here.
Ignat Solzhenitsyn: A Special evening of Music and Poetry
/Ignat Solzhenitsyn, the conductor and pianist, and middle son of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, will present an intimate evening of music featured in and inspired by his father’s writings, along with excerpts from those writings, in honor of the centenary of his birth. The program includes piano works by Beethoven and Shostakovich, personal reflections, and a selection of Solzhenitsyn’s compelling poems, some of which will be heard in English for the very first time. This event takes place at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Monday, 19 November 2018 at 7.30pm. For more details and tickets, go here.
Solzhenitsyn conference in Paris begins Mon, 19 Nov
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A major three-day conference and exhibit of Solzhenitsyn’s manuscripts entitled, “ALEXANDRE SOLJENITSYNE: UN ÉCRIVAIN EN LUTTE AVEC SON SIÈCLE”, begins in Paris on Monday at the Institut de France and the Sorbonne. More info on the conference website.
Margo Caulfield to speak in burlington
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Cavendish historian and author Margo Caulfield will speak in Burlington, Vermont on Thu, 15 November as part of Vermont Historical Society’s Third Thursday series. Her topic is “"I Wrote and Waited": Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Life in Cavendish, VT”. The event will be streamed live on Facebook, with viewers able to ask questions.
“Margo Caulfield of the Cavendish Historical Society will share what his life was like and the impact he had on the community. She will also speak about the work being done to commemorate his life in his centennial year.”
Daniel Mahoney & Ignat Solzhenitsyn at Notre Dame
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Yesterday Daniel Mahoney interviewed Ignat Solzhenitsyn to kick off the 2018 Notre Dame fall conference, “Higher Powers”, largely devoted to the thought and legacy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Watch the video of their discussion below. It was also live-blogged here by Rod Dreher.