# Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Episode 17: It's a Cult! The Problem of Totalizing Ideologies

This episode explores the nature of in-group and out-group dynamics, totalizing ideologies, and how they contribute to societal polarization. Hosts Kevin Shively and Dean Bagley analyze psychological, social, and philosophical frameworks to understand and counteract divisive groupthink. Chapters 00…

Solzhenitsyn’s Warning

When legendary Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn delivered Harvard’s commencement address in 1978, the school’s leaders expected a stirring celebration on the West. Instead, they got a warning that their own countries were headed toward the same grim fate already suffered by Russia. Forty-fiv…

When Is Silence Wisdom and When Is It Complicity? I Deep Dive on Ep. 279

When does refusing to repeat a lie become complicity in it? The hardest question in documentary filmmaking is not how to find the truth. It is how to handle a lie. When a false story is already loose in the world, you have two choices that look almost identical on the page: refuse to repeat it,…

006# - Russian Freedom Lost and Found with Mikhail Zygar

In this episode of The Long View, Michael Kimmage speaks with journalist and author Mikhail Zygar about The Dark Side of the Earth and the human dimensions of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Zygar presents a personal and cultural history of the late Soviet period, highlighting how individual decisions…

The Prophet's Diagnosis

In 1994, Alexander Solzhenitsyn came home to Russia after twenty years of exile — a two-month train journey across the whole country, cameras at every station, a prophet returning in triumph. Then he started talking, and the country stopped listening. This is the third episode of our patron-only se…

Ep:8 Danzig Baldaev: The Man Who Drew Everything Down

Danzig Baldaev was born in 1925 in Siberia, the son of an ethnographer arrested as an enemy of the people. He grew up in an orphanage for children of political prisoners, served in the Second World War, and in 1948 was ordered by the NKVD to work as a warden at Kresty, one of Leningrad's most notor…

Building the Catacomb Church - Episode 3. Truth as Defiance

Today we are going to talk about truth. What does it mean to live in a culture of lies, and what kind of obligation do we have as Christians who are lovers of truth? What obligation do we have in this society to witness to the truth?We are bombarded with ideas, images, and propaganda entirely forei…

The Original 'Liturgy Wars': Between East and West

By Dmitri Solzhenitsyn But first a note: This summer, the Faith & Reason Institute held its first "Enrichment Days" – conversations about the relations between Eastern and Western Christianity – in Kosice, Slovakia. We're hoping to make this a regular activity in order to promote the presence of al…

“Men Have Forgotten God”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn has been praised for his work on religion in atheistic nations. He lamented for the lost Christian heritage of his homeland of Russia. In his heartbreak, he penned some beautiful works highlighting the Atheistic reality he was forced to undergo. Marcus discusses. This is a p…