Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

In Germany Solzhenitsyn lived in Heinrich Böll's house in Cologne. After returning to Russia in 1994 Solzhenitsyn publiAleksandr Solzhenitsynd eight two-part short stories a series of contemplative "miniatures" or prose poems a literary memoir on his years in the West (The Grain Between the Millstones) among many other writings. [citation needed] Solzhenitsyn studied mathematics at Rostov State University.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (pron. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed.