From Under the Rubble
A History, Literature, Politics book. Our present system is unique in world history, because over...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and six dissident colleagues who at the time of publication were still living in the USSR — six men totally vulnerable to arrest, imprisonment, or execution by the Soviet authorities — joined in the midseventies to write a book which surely remains the most extraordinary debate of a nation’s future published in modern times. Shattering a half-century of silence, From Under the Rubble constitutes a devastating attack on the Soviet regime, a moral indictment of the liberal West, and a Christian manifesto calling for a new society — one whose dominant values would be spiritual rather than economic. Personally edited by the Nobel Prize-winning author, fired by his own substantial contributions, From Under...
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Our present system is unique in world history, because over and above its physical and economic constraints, it demands of us total surrender of our souls, continuous and active participation in the general, conscious lie. To this putrefaction of the soul, this spiritual enslavement, human beings who wish to be human cannot consent. When Caesar, having exacted what is Caesar's, demands still more insistently that we render him what is God's that is a sacrifice we dare not make! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, From Under the Rubble //
In 'Memoirs of a Revolutionary' (Victor Serge), he mentioned this book and its value. It was a little hard to get a copy (mine is secondhand and was shipped from the US to the UK, where l got it sent to South Korea), but so glad that l did.The papers are written by prominent intellectuals of the era who had been exiled. While some papers... I read this several years ago, perhaps in the mid-seventies. I remember it being an eloquent accusation of the Soviet Union's attempt to destroy a people's history, and with it, it's cultural identity. Good reading here. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to more deeply understand the difficulties Russia and the former Eastern Bloc are experiencing in their emergence from Communist dictatorship.
