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You were born in the year of the Russian Revolution, and joined the Communist Party 73 years ago. What does communism mean to you personally?

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Well, when I joined the Communist Party, we didn’t know the first thing about it, strictly speaking. I called myself communist when I was seventeen. I stood as Communist candidate in my college debating society. But we were mostly contrarians, or it was a general lefty feeling.

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Let’s move on to your first book, Solzhenitsyn‘s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Yes let’s do that as I’ve quite a lot to say about old Solzh. It was a critical book – an entirely objective account of a victim in a labour camp.

Just one day in an ordinary labour camp.

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Not exaggerated, not even a particularly nasty day. The most extraordinary part is how is got printed. It ran contrary to everyone in the Communist Party in Russia, but the Novy Mir editor Tvardovsky snuck a copy in to Khrushchev and said, ‘This is awfully g