Summary of Joseph Pearce's Solzhenitsyn

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#1 The nine months between the murder of the tsar and the birth of Solzhenitsyn were a period of massive change in Russia. The Bolshevik government, led by Lenin, had fled from St. Petersburg in March, and had established Moscow as the new capital. They had destroyed their socialist rivals in a wave of repression known as the Red Terror.

#2 The Bolshevik government passed legislation in 1918 stipulating that those deprived of freedom who are capable of labor must be recruited for physical work on a compulsory basis. The camps originated from this particular instruction.

#3 Taissia Solzhenitsyn, the mother of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was a French and English speaker who learned stenography and typing. She was constantly discriminated against because of her social origin. She had little option but to seek extra work in the evenings and do her housework late at night when she got home.

#4 In 1919, the White armies of Denikin and Wrangel liberating the south from the Bolsheviks, hope was in the ascendancy. In 1920, the famine was even worse in other parts of Russia, such as the Volga area. Soviet Russia was economically devastated, and the Bolsheviks found themselves confronted with worker unrest.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822516472

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Insights on Joseph Pearce's Solzhenitsyn

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The nine months between the murder of the tsar and the birth of Solzhenitsyn were a period of massive change in Russia. The Bolshevik government, led by Lenin, had fled from St. Petersburg in March, and had established Moscow as the new capital. They had destroyed their socialist rivals in a wave of repression known as the Red Terror.

#2

The Bolshevik government passed legislation in 1918 stipulating that those deprived of freedom who are capable of labor must be recruited for physical work on a compulsory basis. The camps originated from this particular instruction.

#3

Taissia Solzhenitsyn, the mother of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was a French and English speaker who learned stenography and typing. She was constantly discriminated against because of her social origin. She had little option but to seek extra work in the evenings and do her housework late at night when she got home.

#4

In 1919, the White armies of Denikin and Wrangel liberating the south from the Bolsheviks, hope was in the ascendancy. In 1920, the famine was even worse in other parts of Russia, such as the Volga area. Soviet Russia was economically devastated, and the Bolsheviks found themselves confronted with worker unrest.

#5

In 1922, the Bolsheviks began to turn their resentful gaze on the Orthodox Church. In August 1921, the church had created diocesan and all-Russian committees for aid to the starving in the Volga region. The committees were banned, and the funds collected were confiscated and turned over to the state treasury.

#6

The Soviet government began to persecute the Orthodox Church after the Patriarch’s proclamation. They arrested the Patriarch and the Metropolitan Veniamin, and charged them with resisting the requisition of church valuables.

#7

The Soviet Union began the mass arrest of religious believers in the twenties, and continued throughout the thirties. The crime was in mentioning religion, and people were arrested and sentenced for doing so.

#8

The young Solzhenitsyn was oblivious to the suffering inflicted on an older generation of Russians, as he was blissfully unaware of the hidden horrors unfolding around him.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

When Solzhenitsyn arrived in Russia as a six-year-old in 1925, life in the city seemed to have improved greatly from the nightmare reality that the ten-year-old Krysko had faced five years earlier in the same place.

#2

When he started school, the influence of his mother’s religious faith was reinforced during the school holidays by visits to his Uncle Roman and Aunt Irina. His aunt, Irina, was a devout communicant at the local church, and she taught him the