Kevin McKenna on Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Union, and In the First Circle

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🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Russian Literature Professor Kevin McKenna of the University of Vermont talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life and times of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This is the opening episode of the EconTalk Book Club for Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition. A subsequent episode to air in the next few weeks discusses the book itself.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.8	Today is August 17, 2018, and my guest is Professor Kevin McKenna, Professor of Russian Language,
0:40.3	Literature and Culture at the University of Vermont.
0:42.6	Kevin, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:44.5	Yes, thank you.
0:46.3	This is the first of a set of episodes on Alexander Solshny at Sinsmasterwork in the
0:50.8	First Circle.
0:51.8	If you're interested, you can read along with the project.
0:54.4	Just make sure you read in the First Circle the first uncensored edition.
0:59.4	Find their Amazon listed that way.
1:02.7	It's a revision, an uncensored version of a book he wrote long before called The First
1:08.0	Circle.
1:09.2	Don't get the first circle.
1:10.4	Get in the first circle.
1:13.5	This episode, of course, we'll link to the book if you want to buy it directly from our
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