The Impact of Solzhenitsyn on the Soviet Union

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The Soviet Union has been gone for more than a quarter century. Solzhenitsyn brought the voices of all who suffered under that system to the fore in his work. This achievement, it was not paralled by anybody else," he says.

Historian and author Stephen Kotkin of Princeton University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the historical significance of the life and work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Solzhenitsyn's birth.