Solzhenitsyn’s Message for Our People

KEVIN ALFRED STROM (EDITOR)

(1978)

FEW SPEECHES in recent years have generated as much critical comment as has Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s June commencement address at Harvard University.

The exiled Russian author was denounced by liberals and conservatives alike. The New York Times called him “dangerous,” because he questioned “the rationality of humankind.” A Boston Globe columnist s…