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'Wonder Confronts Certainty' — A Conversation with Professor Gary Saul Morson about the Deep Mysteries of Great Russian Literature

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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Sultanitsen and the Bolshevik Revolution

The official Soviet literature was this socialist or Soviet realism. Sultanitsen has seen them in life, so it's not that he was writing contrary to realism, but against the lie of socialist realism. The questions about evil that Tossoy and Dostoevsky are asking now can be posed in a much more radical way against the background of this experience. And that's what makes them so riveting.

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