Book Reviews
Journal: Journal of Russian American Studies
Year: 2022

Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974, many American anticommunists enthusiastically embraced his fierce criticism of dtente and his denunciation of godless communism. Yet when Solzhenitsyn subsequently declared that the West was not a model for the transformation of Russia and scolded Americans for their decadent consumerism, the number of his American admirers dwindled. After the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, many American and West European intellectuals ridiculed and dis