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To: ig who wrote (678243)	2/27/2019 9:28:44 AM
From: James Seagrove	Respond to of 793882

I’m more inclined to believe Rand. bard.edu

To: ig who wrote (678243)	2/28/2019 9:31:32 AM
From: James Seagrove	2 Recommendations Recommended By Bruce L skinowski Respond to of 793882

These comments are interesting, especially the first one. Comments on Alexander Solzhenitsyn “Solzhenitsyn stood within a tradition for which Westerners have little more love (in many cases less) than for Soviet communism. He wanted a Christian and authoritarian Russia, not a liberal or democratic one, and under Putin's rule he got as much of what he wanted as any idealist should expect; whereas the other dissidents tended to want either a humane socialism, discredited by the Gorbachev experiment, or liberal capitalism, discredited under Yeltsin. The liberalism and communism that he loathed were (as he rightly said) children of the Enlightenment; the conception of state power that he and Stalin shared was the inheritance of the Mongol khans. Russians may rightly prefer his vision to Stalin's; but it was never ours.”