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

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Why Don't Younger Readers Embrace Solzhenitsyn?

Kevin argues that post‑Soviet economic changes and changing reading habits reduced interest in deep moral novels among younger Russians.

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