A Voice in the Wilderness

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn preaches his message of moral renewal in the hinterlands, but will Moscow listen?

One by one, they came up to the microphone and addressed the bearded man sitting onstage with his wife and two sons.

! "How do you see the future of our culture?" asked a teacher from the local Railroad Institute. "Is there a danger of extreme nationalism?"

"Thank you for deciding to return to us at the most difficult moment in our history," said a journalist. "If you meet Boris Yeltsin, let him know he should do more to build up Russia."

"They don't know what is going on in Russia," complained a lawyer. "The bureaucracy is tainted by the mafia....

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