While Solzhenitsyn's brave exposition of the Stalinist gulag system was in itself worthy of the Nobel Prize, I felt he lacked any broader vision of freedom, and that what he really meant was religious freedom for the Russian Orthodox Church, and little more. His culture shock on finding that the West was not simply the "opposite" of Commmunist Russia was palpable, and following his exile he seems to have had little constructive to say. But perhaps it's a bit captious to criticise a person for what he didn't see, and simply accept the value of such vision that he did have.