Talk:Valentin Rasputin

recent changes to rasputin's writings
I was happy to see someone else expanding this short article too. I knew of a reference for the opposition to the plan to divert the Siberian rivers, but do not know one for the criticism of dam-building (other than those who interpret this to be the meaning of Farewell to Matyora itself) or for the fact that Rasputin's hometown had been similarly cleared for the construction of a dam. References for these would be helpful.

The other changes I made were stylistic and structural--changing a couple verb forms to keep them consistent and moving the references to nonfiction writing (like the letter oppositing the water management projects) from the paragraph on fiction to the discussion of nonfiction. Also, I thought it very important that 'our' be replaced with something indicating the view on moral relativism was Rasputin's--many contemporaries do not share Rasputin's view that modernity and pluralism are equivalent to moral relativism. Suggesting otherwise might be interpreted as a statement of a point of view rather than stating what Rasputin himself said.--Speed jackson (talk) 03:55, 24 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Am mostly offline these days - traveling through rural Australia - but, anyway, thanks for any corrections. As to Rasputin vs. dam-building - he has an entire "Angara" chapter in his Siberia, Siberia (1991), which basically summarizes much of his earlier writing on that. As to much of good lands in Ust-Uda district being flooded by Bratsk Reservoir, and most villages relocated, that comes up in most Russian google searches on the place names involved, or in Rasputin biographies. When back online, I will put in some references in. Vmenkov (talk) 02:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)