Solzhenitsyn wanted a post-Soviet Russia characterized by democracy at the local level married to strong centralized power based on Russian tradition, spiritual renewal based on morality rather than law, and resistance to Western universalism.
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“the post-soviet for him...was a matter not of westernization...he wanted some measure of local rule local self-rule democracy at the local level but he wanted to marry that with a strong centralized power in Russia”
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