> and the satisfaction of being proved right in his predictions of disaster. Any brief accounts of what his predictions were? I don't want to read The Gulag Ar

> and the satisfaction of being proved right in his predictions of disaster. Any brief accounts of what his predictions were? I don't want to read The Gulag Archipelago. Something I could read, watch or listen to in 30 minutes would be ideal. I have come across a few accounts of how the USSR collapsed. Some of them mentioned Solzhenitsyn briefly. As I recall, the major factors were political scheming and manipulation, followed by opposition of dissent, followed by opening up of the press, which finally showed the citizens how bad they really had it there. Gorbachev tried various measures to handle the situation, but they all proved ineffective. That's the version I know. Solzhenitsyn may have been a great writer. But as far as I know, his role in the collapse of the USSR was minor. The end result would have followed pretty much the same timeline. This is the best short explanation I have come across: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqt3U48MFcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqt3U48MFcY