"D#65533;tente is one of those few books that I found difficult to put down. In spite of a very busy schedule, I finished it in a few hours. The beauty of Solzhenitsyn's prose gave me the momentum. The replies of the experts provided the curiosity that gave me the impetus to continue. I am glad that I did. . . . [The] brilliance of Solzhenitsyn's rhetoric is balanced by the technical accuracy of the various commentaries. . . . In the package that is represented by the book as a whole we are given the clearest view of d#65533;tente that I have yet read. . . . What D#65533;tente shows so clearly is that there is need for both the heart and the head. It shows further that social science definitely has something to say, and something urgent."

--George A. Hillery, Jr., Contemporary Sociology