Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote

For years, I have with a reluctant heart withheld from publication this already completed book: my obligation to those still living outweighed my obligation to the dead. But now that State Security has seized the book anyway, I have no alternative but to publish it immediately.


The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973)


For years, I have with a reluctant heart withheld from publication this already completed book: my obligation to those still living outweighed my...

For years, I have with a reluctant heart withheld from publication this already completed book: my obligation to those still living outweighed my...

For years, I have with a reluctant heart withheld from publication this already completed book: my obligation to those still living outweighed my...

For years, I have with a reluctant heart withheld from publication this already completed book: my obligation to those still living outweighed my...