The Ghost of 1917: A Warning from the Past
I read the review in today’s WSJ, “March 1917, Book 4”: Solzhenitsyn on Russia’s Moment of
From the essay
I read the review in today’s WSJ, “March 1917, Book 4”: Solzhenitsyn on Russia’s Moment of Crisis with a chill down my spine. Not because I learned something new, but because it confirmed what I already feared deep in my bones. Solzhenitsyn—my intellectual and moral beacon—tried for decades to warn the West. His words are now echoing louder than ever. The parallels between Russia on the eve of the Bolshevik seizure of power and what is unraveling in America today are too many, too sharp, and too deadly to ignore.
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