Quotation by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Bobynin, in The First Circle (1968)"Expulsion" Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record, ed. Leopold Labedz (1970)"How We Must Rebuild Russia" published in Soviet Union's biggest-selling daily newspaper, Komosomolskaya Pravda (Sept. 18, 1990)Innokenty, in The First Circle (1968)Kuziomin, in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962, trans. 1963)

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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Russian novelist. Commencement address, June 7, 1978, Harvard University.

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