作为一名作家,索尔仁尼琴的经历是不幸的,但与苏联其它众多“有良心”的知识分子相比,索尔仁尼琴却还算是相当幸运的。苏联从建立之初就开始逐渐过渡到高度的集权专制制度。在专制最严重的斯大林时期的“大清洗”运动中,成千上万的知识分子由于批评政府,或是由于各种莫明其妙的原因被逮捕入狱,很多人甚至 As a writer, Solzhenitsyn’s experience was unfortunate, but Solzhenitsyn was still quite fortunate compared with many other “conscientious” intellectuals in the Soviet Union. From the very beginning of its establishment, the Soviet Union began to gradually transition to a highly centralized autocratic system. Thousands of intellectuals were arrested and jailed in the “tyranny” purge, the most authoritarian Stalin era, because of criticism of the government or for various inexplicable reasons, and many even