The St. Austin Review
The St. Austin Review (StAR) is an international journal of Catholic culture, literature, and ideas. In its pages, printed every two months, some of the brightest and most vigorous minds around meet to explore the people, ideas, movements, and events that shape and misshape our world.
The Witness and Wisdom of Aleksandr Solzehnitsyn
Sample Article: Solzhenitsyn’s History of Russia
In The Red Wheel, a novelistic history of the Russian Revolution, the fictional Colonel Georgi Vorotyntsev speaks for Solzhenitsyn or, better put, is Solzhenitsyn. We know this because “in childhood he had been obsessed with Russia’s history and felt a premonition that his own future life would be bound up with it”. From his youth on, he “had craved one thing above all else: to influence his country’s history for the good, to drag or hustle uncouth Russia along the road to better things”. That effort, he believed, could succeed only if his country repented of its sins.
There was a time, according to Solzhenitsyn, when Russia remained true to the Orthodox Faith that endowed her with the gift of repentance, “which more than anything else distinguishes man from the animal world”. Not for nothing is Forgiveness Sunday (the final Sunday before Great Lent when all ask forgiveness from all) a high point on the Orthodox calendar. Dostoevsky put it this way: “We are each responsible to all for all.”
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March-April issue: Shakespeare and Cervantes
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January-February Issue: Education for Truth and Life
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November-December issue: Europe and the Culture of Christendom
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September-October Issue: Shamrock, Thistle, Daffodil and Rose: The Cultures of the British Isles
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The Good, the True and the Ugly
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