Чужой среди «своих»? Несостоявшийся бунт Солженицына

Abstract

The article puts forward the hypothesis that A. Solzhenitsyn sought to overcome his affiliation with the dissident movement and his public role of the Soviet human rights defender in literature and to become big writer, thinker and historian engaged in unbiased historiosophy. The author claims that Solzhenitsyn could not or did not have the time to take this path in his creative work, because of two factors – his dependence on the dissident movement and his dependence on the ideology of modernity, which took the form of global Western culture. In the article these factors are examined using as examples two Solzhenitsyn’s works – «Red wheel» and «Reflections on the February revolution».