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Like Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, disgraced himself as he aged. Over the past two decades, Solzhenitsyn became a full-fledged loon, immersed in low-grade anti-Semitism and warning of elaborate conspiracies around every corner (a tendency of every Russian I’ve ever known, perhaps with some justification).

But his epic works for which he is well known are indisputably great works of courage and intelligence.