Solzhenitsyn: Russia dogged by problems similar to those that led to 1917 revolution .

The Independent:

Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn warns in the preface to a newly republished article that Russia is still struggling with challenges similar to those of the revolutionary turmoil of 1917 that led to the demise of the czarist empire.

The article - which will appear tomorrow in the influential government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta - analyzes the roots of the February revolution 90 years ago that forced the abdication of the last czar, Nicholas II, and helped pave the way for the Bolsheviks.

«It's all the more bitter that a quarter of a century later, some of these conclusions are still applicable to the alarming disorder of today,» Solzhenitsyn wrote in a preface to the article first written in the early 1980s.