The Other Solzhenitsyn: Telling the Truth about a Misunderstood Writer and Thinker
The Other Solzhenitsyn: Telling the Truth about a Misunderstood Writer and Thinker The great Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely recognized as one of the most consequential…
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The Other Solzhenitsyn: Telling the Truth about a Misunderstood Writer and Thinker
The great Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely recognized as one of the most consequential human beings of the twentieth century. Yet the world-class novelist, historian, and philosopher (one uses the latter term in its capacious Russian sense) has largely been eclipsed by a caricature that has transformed a measured and self-critical patriot into a ferocious nationalist, a partisan of local self-government into a quasi-authoritarian, a man of faith and reason into a narrow-minded defender of Orthodoxy. Through his writings and moral witness, he illumined the nature of totalitarianism and helped bring down an 'evil empire.' His courage and tenacity are acknowledged even by his fiercest critics.
The caricature, widely dispensed in the press, and too often taken for granted, gets in the way of a thoughtful and humane confrontation with the "other" Solzhenitsyn, the
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