“He didn’t like the US either, or democracy”
True, Solzhenitsyn regarded the West as decadent, irreligious, & uncomprehending of the evil of communism, and said so in his 1978 speech, but where in his writings does he suggest a humane alternative to democracy?
There was a spoof ad for “Mother’s Borscht”, a kosher product, featuring Solzhenitsyn’s endorsement:
“Because even cowardly Western liberals have the right to eat well!”
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-the-ascent-from-ideology-27
try the above
He’s well known as an advocate for the return of monarchy.
I believe that he advocated a return to traditional Russian monarchy, and to simple rural agrarian life in some ways echoing Jefferson on the virtues of the latter.