Locating quotations by Lunacharski and Solzhenitsyn

[Irene Zohrab]

Hi Lonny, 

>From memory the quote from Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago comes from Part IV, chapter 1. (But I have not had the time to check - though I am pretty sure that that is where it's from.)

Irene Zohrab
Victoria University 


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From:	Lonny Harrison [mailto:lonny.harrison at UTORONTO.CA]
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Dear Colleagues,

I am searching for the original Russian sources of the following quotations. 
Any help to locate them would be greatly appreciated.

The first is a statement regarding F. M. Dostoevski by Anatoli Lunacharski. 
Does anyone know where it is excerpted from?

The second is excerpted from the Gulag Archipelago. Could anyone familiar with 
the text please point me toward the precise section where it occurs?

Many thanks,
Lonny Harrison  


"The study and understanding of Dostoevsky becomes a passion…
that only deepens [the convalescent’s] insanely heady faith
 that their illness is health, or their vain hope of finding a cure
 for this illness in mysticism, patriotism, self-analysis, self-exaltation
 or self-denigration. For them the involvement with Dostoevsky
 is equivalent to putting a millstone around their necks,
 one that compels them, after leaping into the cesspool, to remain there.
[…] He who learns from Dostoevsky cannot help the construction of society."

Anatoli Lunacharski, Soviet Commissar of Education, 1929. 


"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously
 committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only
 to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the
 heart of every human being. And who is willing
 to destroy a piece of his own heart?" 

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago.

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