Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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"Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn" was a Russian novelist, historian, and critic of Soviet totalitarianism. He helped to raise global awareness of the gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system. While his writings were long suppressed in the USSR, he wrote many books, most notably The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, August 1914 and Cancer Ward. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life.

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us... than the need for any external expansion of our power.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.