Under the Rock: Solzhenitsyn's Defiant Writings
by Long Yuchen
About This Novel
The dramatic turn of the Russian writer Solzhenitsyn's thoughts in his life triggered widespread controversy in the international academic community. The conservative stance he finally chose was considered to have extremely narrow nationalist tendencies. This article provides a contextual interpretation of Solzhenitsyn's ideological formation and related creative activities in diachronic order, trying to reveal that from the Soviet Union to the West, and then to Russia after liberalization reforms, the specific historical spaces in which the writer was involved have been seriously imbalanced. Although he advocates the "middle way", he can only constantly change his stance and paradoxically balance various unified ideological systems with his fierce voice of resistance. Solzhenitsyn's return to Russian national tradition is not only not a fiction, but a choice made after in-depth dialogue with Western modern civilization, which also makes his related thinking of very important cross-cultural significance.
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