I am not a big fan of Solzhenitsyn - I think his talent deserted him when he went into Great Russian ideology somewhere in 80s. But this particular piece sound more current and important than most dross you'd read in the newspapers.

[link|http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html|http://www.columbia..../harvard1978.html]


(note: "The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science" that gets quoted in the speech is one of the better-known Russian antisemites. If you check out his more recent writings, you'll learn that all Russian problems from beginning of 20th century to Gorbachev and Yeltsin are caused by Jews. Seems that Solzhenitsyn is not the only one who lost the touch)