Synopses & Reviews
Review
"As the great if anachronistic Russian prophet, Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, sees it, the problem with Russia is that it has strayed from its roots, from its principles. Sound familiar? Russia is the quintessential Christian nation, the incarnation, in many respects, of the political teachings or at least implications of the New Testament. Solzhenitsyn wants to return to those teachings, which do not always—in fact they rarely—coincide with modern concepts of democracy. In the conditions prevailing in Russia today he may get his wish, or at least the anti-democratic portion of it, and he may regret that he did." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)