The Rediscovery of Politics
Six talks on authority, culture and community in the USSR given by Geoffrey Hosking ,
Professor of Russian History at London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
2: The Return of the Repressed 'The publication in 1962 of Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich released a flood of popular memory. Overnight Solzhenitsyn became, as it were, honorary archivist for a nation which had lacked its own memory.
This was the "return of the repressed" not in the individual psyche, but in the cultural community. And as Freud has taught us, the repressed always returns with tremendous emotional force.'
The 1988 Reith Lectures are printed weekly in the 'Listener'.