Episode 33: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | The Authority with Joseph Pearce

Joseph Pearce explores the life and impact of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the first Russian author featured in the series. Solzhenitsyn, a dissident during the Soviet era, faced tyranny and terror under the communist regime. Pearce reflects on his personal connection with Solzhenitsyn, having met him in 1998, and emphasizes the author's profound influence on his journey to Christianity through works like "The Gulag Archipelago." Discover the key moments in Solzhenitsyn's life, including his imprisonment, Nobel Prize win, and expulsion from the Soviet Union, and find out why he was a pivotal figure who contributed to the downfall of the Soviet system.
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[@williamzeranski5387]

I read your biography of Solzhenitsyn, and it is wonderful. Thank you.

[@batmaninc2793]

More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Templeton Address [A.D. 1983]

[@cecemeyers6028]

I had a brilliant librarian when I was in just grade 6. She introduced me personally to Sherlock Holmes, and then the entire 6th grade to Solzhenitsyn. It was the beginning of an uptick in my intelligence to be sure.
It would be interested to know in what ways did the how did the media treat Solzhenitsyn so badly. What could have possibly been their motivation?

[@jackieann5494]

Loved this
SO much !
Thank you !

[@Paul9443]

It is incredible the complexity of this series! 😀

[@marcellawaganer420]

Promo'SM 🎊

[@uncatila]

what a giant he was. memorising his verse like blind Homer.

[@eduardovital418]

I read that monumental work of Solzhenitsyn when I was a teenager in Mexico. I was really shock about the whole abomination of the soviet concentration camps, but my admiration for that great russian christian was total.