Diving In

06: Manuscripts, Spies and Mother Russia - Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and Lara Prescott


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Virginia and Louise journey to Russia minus the vodka and discuss a new best-seller set in the Cold War and a stolen manuscript, some Russian novels and the fate of dissidents who speak out against Mother Russia.
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott, 2019Dr Zhivago by Boris PasternakOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Newspapers:
New York Times, Oleg Sentsov: Russian by Blood and Language, Ukrainian in Spiritby Andrew Higgins, Saturday Profile, 27 September 2019.Gulag Tourism, https://theculturetrip.com/europe/russia/articles/the-surprising-rise-of-gulag-holidays
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