Summer, 1994. After nearly 20 years in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn embarks on a journey across Russia. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev, Wikimedia Commons “In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will
300 civilizations have come and gone on Earth, each time because the dynamic drive of the individual has been overwhelmed by governments and rulers increasingly desperate to control individuals. Increasing centralized control further erodes the rights and responsibilities of individuals, leading to anonymous collectivism and rule by opaque committees in which reasoning is specious
Summer, 1994. After nearly 20 years in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn embarks on a journey across Russia. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev, Wikimedia Commons When Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, he published this autobiographical essay.