This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a man who dominated the latter part of the 20th century when I was reading him,

a man who wrote nonfiction and fiction,

who wrote from history, his history. And I welcome someone to help me tell that story because

here we are at war with Russia in some fashion. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was at war with Russia in another fashion in his lifetime.

He first served the country and then he fought the country.

I welcome Richard Reinsch, the editor-in-chief of Civitas.

This is a think tank at the University of Texas as well as a publication, Civitas Institute.

I recommend highly, and Richard has done us a favor of writing a review and an analysis of a recent

collection of social needs and speeches, remarks, entirely after he was exiled from his mother Russia.

He did return after the fall of the Soviets, and yet still all these decades later,

there is the compelling need to understand what Solzhenitsin was telling us about his country

and about our country as well.

Richard, congratulations and a very good evening to you.

Who was Alexander Solzhenitsyn?

What do the young people need to know of our memory, 20th century men that we were?

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, and thank you for having me on your program and for the opportunity to talk about Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born under the Soviet Union and served the Red Army, was in East Germany serving in 1945 and been fighting the entire war when he was sent to the

Gullog, in effect, to Soviet prison camps for, in effect, cracking jokes about Joseph Stalin

for making light of the tyrannical ruler of the Soviet Union.

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