1.0 link 116898 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/the-death-of-ivan-denisov_b_116898.html Like most Americans (and Russians, for that matter), I learned a lot from Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. Russia was a mysterious country when I was growing up, and for most of my childhood the only thing I knew about the place was that they might blow me up and that children in Russia didn't get to decide what they were going to do when they grew up, as I got to do. For these very reasons, I couldn't get enough of Russian...

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