Ot mraka k svetu. Ot bitvy k knige. Ot goria k schast'iu. [Book with slogan: From darkness to light, from battle to boo...] (1917-1921)"Discover new things!""Be guided by knowledge" "Fill in the gaps!"These are just a few of the slogans in the new advertising campaign launched by the government of Moscow to encourage and promote reading. The campaign, which is targeted at young people, also includes 100 billboards placed around the city by the Moscow Writers Union emblazoned with the words "Read Books."Gramota - put' k kommunizmu. [Literacy is the road to communism.] (1920) Alexander Gerasimov, spokesman for the Moscow Writers...
Solzhenitsyn Now Required Reading In Russian Schools
Excerpts from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1973 epic The Gulag Archipelago, once banned by Soviet censors, have now been added to the curriculum for high-school students in Russia.The decision by he Education Ministry, announced today, was taken due to "the vital historical and cultural heritage on the course of 20th-century domestic history" contained in Mr. Solzhenitsyn's work, the ministry said.It is believed that over a million Russians perished in the Gulag, created by Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin and expanded by Josef Stalin as a clandestine network of prison and labor camps.The Gulag Archipelago, published in the West in 1973, has secretly circulated...