The Russian author and dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, when writing about the importance of initiating each succeeding generation into the culture in which they are born, argues, ‘To fight against untruth and falsehood, to fight against myths, or to fight against an ideology which is hostile to mankind, to fight for our memory of what things were like – that is the task of the artist.
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