Putin now argues, as Solzhenitsyn did in a speech at Harvard University in 1978, that Russia has a separate civilization from the West, one that can't be reconciled either to Communism or western ...

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning ... his reactionary criticisms of Western democracy. In a searing speech to Harvard’s graduating class of 1978, he observed that “a decline ...

They asked what people in America, where Solzhenitsyn was then in forced exile, thought about his writings and occasional public statements–as, for example, his controversial speech at Harvard ...