New at Reason: Cathy Young on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In The Gulag Archipelago, his searing account of life and death in Russia's vast network of concentration camps, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exposed the true face of the Soviet regime. Yet as contributing editor Cathy Young explains, Solzhenitsyn's sad and paradoxical final years have tarnished his legacy.
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