Detente

About “Detente”

Detente, Democracy and Dictatorship is a collection of major addresses and a final interview by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, focusing on the subject of detente, democracy, and dictatorship. The work includes speeches delivered in 1975 in Washington, D.C. and New York, a 1978 address at Harvard University, and a 2007 interview with Der Spiegel, offering critical commentary on the risks of conflating ideology with diplomacy and summarizing the theoretical underpinnings of the Soviet system.