Toward the end of the novel , Kostoglotov - who , like Solzhenitsyn , was forced into exile under Article 58 , which dealt with counter-revolutionaries - realizes that the damage done to him , and to Russia , was too great , and that there will be no healing , no normal life now that Stalin has gone .
Toward the end of the novel , Kostoglotov - who , like Solzhenitsyn , was forced into exile under `` Article 58 '' , which dealt with counter-revolutionaries - realizes that the damage done to him , and to Russia , was too great .