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A World Split Apart: Commencement Address Delivered at Harvard University, June 8, 1978 (A Dual-Language Book)
A World Split Apart Commencement Address Delivered at Harvard University June 8 1978 - A Dual-Language Book Author:Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn On the afternoon of June 8, 1979, the author delivered the commencement address at Harvard University before a crowd estimated at more than 20,000. During the next two days, front-page newspaper stories coast to coast reported on it and many papers endorsed or disagreed with it in leading editorials. — Attempting, as he said, "to deal with c... more »ertain aspects of the West in our days as I see them," Solzhenitsyn appeals to the West to recognize values and goals beyond human happiness. "The human soul," he declared, "longs for things higher, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living...."
This volume presents the complete text of the commencement address in Russian and in English, translated by Irina Ilovayskaya Alberti, with assistance from Alexis Klimoff.« less