Soljenițîn și chestiunea rusă
Solzhenitsyn and the Russian question

Summary/Abstract: Solzhenitsyn’s role in the world, the place he has been assigned in Russian culture has already been praised in countless writings. He was said to represent “Russia’s hope”, to have “given us back the grandeur and sense of morality,” to be “the symbol of our epoch,” to have won recognition as “the Great Witness in the trial of communism;” likewise, it was said that he left an extraordinary mark on those living in the West. A very correct and comprehensive characterization comes from the Montenegrin Milovan Djilas (1911-1995), another famous dissident from the ex-communist space: “Solzhenitsyn fills the vacuum created in the Russian culture and consciousness. He gave Russia back its soul, that soul which was revealed to the world by the likes of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov and Gorki.”

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