Rebuilding Russia - Softcover

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000272149X ISBN 13: 9780002721493

Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), 1991

Synopsis

Alexander Solzbenitsyn's Rebuilding Russia Reflections and Tentative Proposals Translated from Russian and with notes by Alexis Klimoff. Harveill Publishers.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

From Publishers Weekly:

Solzhenitsyn's outspoken anticommunist manifesto is a historic document. This prescient essay, written in 1990, urges Russia to divest itself of the non-Slav republics. The new "Rus" would consist of the Russian Federated Republic, the Ukraine, Belorussia and perhaps Kazakhstan. Solzhenitsyn ( The Gulag Archipelago ), who recently was declared innocent of treason and has plans to return to his home country after 18 years of exile, criticizes Gorbachev's tepid pre-coup reforms, calls for the dismantling of the KGB and says the government should encourage private enterprise, with legal limits placed on the concentration of capital. He envisages a decentralized economy clustered around 40 cities with local self-government, and "built from the bottom up." Open presidential elections would be held every five or seven years. Railing against the "self-indulgent, squalid" popular culture imported from the West, Solzhenitsyn aims for "the spiritual and physical salvation of our people."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 000272149X
• ISBN 13: 9780002721493
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80