THE SHADOW OF TRUTH: Ethical Concerns in the Writings of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"One word of truth will outweigh the entire world." These were the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn while accepting the Nobel Prize in 1974. The twentieth century was the bloodiest century in human history, thanks largely to two ideologies - Fascism and Marxism. While there have been numero...

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Main Author: Radhakrishnan, Arvind (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dharmaram College 2013
In: Journal of Dharma
Year: 2013, Volume: 38, Issue: 3, Pages: 269-284
Further subjects:B Havel
B Ethics
B Human Nature
B Lev Tolstoy
B Totalitarianism
B Politics
B Solzhenitsyn
B Sartre
B Existentialism
B Humanism
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