Word: solzhenitsym
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...favorable. The one Bolshevik personality who makes an appearance is not shown in a flattering light. At several points he makes disparaging remarks on the feasibility of instituting a perfect social order, and several conversations in the book that serve only to carry a philosophical point indicate that to Solzhenitsym attempts in that direction are dangerously foolish. Alternatives are tentatively presented, as he toys with the idea of a technocracy and makes the historically accurate assertion that early in the 20th century the Russian Empire was making rapid industrial progress. But he does not develop the themes or implications...
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