I suspect that, with or without Common Bore, Solzhenitsyn's work will not be studied in "American" gummint skewels. He wrote the gruesome truth about Russia's suffering under "liberalism in a hurry." Asked to explain succinctly what had happened there, he recalled what his elders told him when he was a child: Men have forgotten God. Sounds to me like a nation near me today.
After Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the soviet union when the KGB discovered parts of The Gulag Archipelago, and stripped of his soviet citizenship, and having won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, Solzhenitsyn toured the west and the United States. He gave the commencement address at (even leftist) Harvard in 1978.
To the immense disgrace of the United States, His Accidency Gerald Ford, historical footnote, political hack extraordinaire, quisling and pipsqueak, REFUSED to meet Solzhenitsyn face to face although strongly urged to do so by his own administration officials Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. Why, meeting with the greatest living author and most honest political historian might hurt the feelings of soviet slavemasters and other enemies of the West and Judaeo-Christian civilization! Or make Feckless Ford look less fashionable to "American" leftwing pseudo"culturati" and lamestream mass media. What might Walter Cronkite say or Eric Sevareid?
I did not know that.
Sad and embarrassing legacy is often left to us by our political elite class.