Comments on: The deaths that bind us: Solzhenitsyn, Pugovkin, Mordyukova http://globalcomment.com/2008/the-deaths-that-bind-us-solzhenitsyn-pugovkin-mordyukova/ where the world thinks out loud Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Natalia Antonova http://globalcomment.com/2008/the-deaths-that-bind-us-solzhenitsyn-pugovkin-mordyukova/comment-page-1/#comment-1168 Natalia Antonova Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:33:47 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/?p=354#comment-1168 <blockquote>Perhaps in a later column, you can explain to Westerners exactly how Soviet and post-Soviet audiences responded to ‘dissident’ writers and what Westerners need to learn about Eastern Europeans from the post-Soviet response to ‘dissidents.’</blockquote> It's not a simple dichotomy of Soviet vs. West.

Perhaps in a later column, you can explain to Westerners exactly how Soviet and post-Soviet audiences responded to ‘dissident’ writers and what Westerners need to learn about Eastern Europeans from the post-Soviet response to ‘dissidents.’

It’s not a simple dichotomy of Soviet vs. West.

]]> By: James Stanhope http://globalcomment.com/2008/the-deaths-that-bind-us-solzhenitsyn-pugovkin-mordyukova/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 James Stanhope Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:25:11 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/?p=354#comment-1166 Natalia, in your above column, you contrast the West's almost unconditional admiration of Solzhenitsyn with what is apparently a more ambivalent response by post-Soviet-bloc audiences (and perhaps even Soviet audiences?). This native Russian ambivalence toward 'dissident' writers is not usually reported in the West. Westerners, by learning more about the nuanced/ambivalent Russian response to the works and reputations of Solzhenytsin, Pasternak, et al., can probably better understand the past and present Russian attitudes toward Russia and toward the West. Perhaps in a later column, you can explain to Westerners exactly how Soviet and post-Soviet audiences responded to 'dissident' writers and what Westerners need to learn about Eastern Europeans from the post-Soviet response to 'dissidents.' Natalia, in your above column, you contrast the West’s almost unconditional admiration of Solzhenitsyn with what is apparently a more ambivalent response by post-Soviet-bloc audiences (and perhaps even Soviet audiences?).

This native Russian ambivalence toward ‘dissident’ writers is not usually reported in the West.

Westerners, by learning more about the nuanced/ambivalent Russian response to the works and reputations of Solzhenytsin, Pasternak, et al., can probably better understand the past and present Russian attitudes toward Russia and toward the West.

Perhaps in a later column, you can explain to Westerners exactly how Soviet and post-Soviet audiences responded to ‘dissident’ writers and what Westerners need to learn about Eastern Europeans from the post-Soviet response to ‘dissidents.’

]]> By: Volodymyr A. http://globalcomment.com/2008/the-deaths-that-bind-us-solzhenitsyn-pugovkin-mordyukova/comment-page-1/#comment-1165 Volodymyr A. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:59:44 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/?p=354#comment-1165 I agree with all. Thanks Natalia!!! I agree with all. Thanks Natalia!!!

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