During a dinner conversation with professional colleagues last night, I asked what they thought about Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died on Sunday at the age of 89. But when one of them responded reflexively by asking “Who was he?“, I simply could not disguise my stupefaction. And it did not enlighten the conversation when another of them tried to excuse this colleague’s ignorance… Read more.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Union’s most-celebrated dissident, is dead
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 5:29 AM