The Prophet and the Commissars
Even in death, Alexander Solzhenitsyn will remain a force to be reckoned with. Having been used by Nikita Khrushchev to undermine the Stalin era's moral pretenses, and by Vladimir Putin to uphold the ideals of Russian nationalism, perhaps one day his work will be restored to its rightful place as a monument to individual freedom.
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MOSCOW – Prophets, it is said, are supposed to be without honor in their homeland. Yet Moscow has just witnessed the extraordinary sight of Alexander Solzhenitsyn – the dissident and once-exiled author of the Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – receiving what amounts to a state funeral, with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin acting as chief mourner.