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[Going Home – The Return of Solzhenitsyn]

Item number (ISN):

422670

Series title:

Sunday Morning : [excerpt]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

422670

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

GRAY, Elizabeth

Accession:

2010-0012

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1994-04-17

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

reporter, Elizabeth Gray

Description:

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Documentary about how much Russia has changed since writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn was last there. Elizabeth Gray reports that today’s Russians do not want to be reminded of the Soviet past. Gray describes the changed scene in Moscow, including increased traffic, an outdoor art market and a pile of discarded statues of Soviet political figures. Subjects discussed include: Russian literature past and present; the view among the younger generation that Solzhenitsyn is an old-fashioned figure and that there is no interest in political writing; how Solzhenitsyn’s writings inspired many people but are now considered irrelevant by present-day Russians; the desire to forget the painful aspects of the Soviet past; the apolitical and experimental writing by young Russian writers; contemporary Russian music; writer Igor Yarkeevich who wrote a mocking story called “If I Were Solzhenitsyn”; the desire by the younger generation to shock; the difficult past of older writers such as Andrei Bitov who worked in isolation and was banned; and whether Solzhenitsyn’s conservatism will have a moderating effect on the right-wing extremists popular in Russia today. Interviewees include: writer Peter Aleshkovsky; Natasha Perova of the literary magazine “Glas”; popular culture critic Artyom Troitsky; writer Andrei itov and Victor Yerefeev, author of the novel “Russian Beauty”. Actuality includes: an excerpt of a song by Igor Talkov and a song by the rock group Kombinatsia. <23mn 1s>

Language:

English

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1. Second of two tracks on CD.~2. Script available.

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Vault ISN:

508042

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2036AV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

75:34

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Conditions of access:

Open

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation holds copyright on the completed broadcasts.

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