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This 5 page paper explains how Solzhenitsyn’s writing describe the way in which people overcame oppression at three levels: social, personal and historical. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and historical levels. Discussion The way the assignment is worded, its very difficult to decide on appropriate research. The student will probably fare best simply by looking for sources about
Solzhenitsyn himself, and then perhaps looking at reviews of his works, the most famous of which is certainly The Gulag Archipelago. First, we begin with a commencement address that
Solzhenitsyn gave at Harvard in 1978; the points he makes then are still valid today. Here, he is discussing the way in which nations have become used to condoning what
we usually label as evil deeds, noting that a statesman who wants to do something "highly constructive for his country" has to go about it with great caution, even timidity;
meanwhile, he is criticized by the government as well as the press (Solzhenitsyn, 1978). He has to convince everyone that what hes doing is logical, practical and "absolutely flawless" (Solzhenitsyn,
1978). A truly great person hardly ever gets a chance to put his ideas into practice, because he faces opposition from the beginning (Solzhenitsyn, 1978). Because of this, "mediocrity triumphs
under the guise of democratic restraints" (Solzhenitsyn, 1978). Solzhenitsyn argues that something he calls "irresponsible freedom," which is probably best thought of as freedom without any practical restraints, has been
given all the space it wants (1978). This sort of freedom, which in a sense is too free, gives us things like questionable films full of violence, sex and horror
that our young people are free to watch (Solzhenitsyn, 1978). These films, we can infer, are among those mediocre projects that society condones while condemning more serious works; and in
a larger sense, the whole society is reduced to the lowest common denominator. When one of his protagonists does the right thing, or triumphs over adversity, he is in a
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