Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Matryona's Home

A lecture on Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn's magnificent early novella about Stalinist Russia, anticipating later and larger works.

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[JonathanHatch]

90 seconds in and he's asked to define the term 'dissident'... and he doesn't weep and retire. Truly heroic...

[hebbspark]

very interesting! wish we were able to cover this in in-person class

[mahaibrahim]

I have to analyze Matroyna's house and link it to Domination and the Arts of Resistance
by James C. Scott in my final. your lecture was very helpful thank you

[cerbico]

Love this story. Great lecture. I had to listen to this after a deposition from lawyers much worse then a root canal who are suing my business for 10 million that I spent years building years of study in engineering and bled to start. As i listen to these attorneys build a narrative on things they are totally cluless and do not understand what I am doing and have created...AI based on Fourrier/Laplace transforms/ eulers law quantum mechanics python ect... Thanks for the lecture... had to also read the classic Charles Dickens line as well from the play Oliver Twist from the Character Mr.Bumble....well than the law is an ass

[tourajtayebi]

How can one bring himself writing such a story without breaking his back under its weight?
What an amazing read was the Matryona's Home, but also how scary when I compare my shortcomings to the high spirit of Matryona_ and how many such Matryonas are around us without noticing them until they are gone.
I read these are real accounts that he wrote about_ if so, God bless her soul!

[bbilltthompson]

"Pravda" means "truth."