Solzhenitsyn, Tvardovsky, and Novy Mir

"Central to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 'The Oak and the Calf'... is his critical, controversial portrait of the late Aleksandr Tvardovsky, editor of the liberal Soviet journal Novy Mirwhich launched Solzhenitsyn as a writer. Now we have a powerful rebuttal, written originally in samizdatby Novy Mir's deputy editor-literary critic who witnessed the tense events Solzhenitsyn relates in his memoir.... Point by point he takes on Solzhenitsyn's charges against Tvardovsky.... Lakshin's bill of particulars is not mere internecine squabble but rather an authentic attempt to right the record, a telling, important document." - Publishers WeeklyLakshin, Vladimir is the author of 'Solzhenitsyn, Tvardovsky, and Novy Mir' with ISBN 9780262120869 and ISBN 0262120860.