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Kevin McKenna on Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Union, and In the First Circle

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Why Did Solzhenitsyn Self‑Censor In the First Circle?

Kevin explains the political reversal after Khrushchev, Brezhnev's rise, and why Solzhenitsyn cut chapters to avoid repression.

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