books about: solzhenitsyn

books about: solzhenitsyn

books:

Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Bantam Books, 1981

Harper & Row's de facto censorship
For the second time in the last fifteen years, Harper & Row (or HarperCollins now), which claims to own the world-wide publishing rights to The First Circle, has stopped printing this magnificent work. They did it once before in the mid-90's. When I protested to them ...

Warning to the West

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Hill and Wang, 1986

Essential Reading
It is a somewhat daunting task to attempt to write an articulate review when Solzhenitsyn is so incredibly articulate himself. Suffice it to say that this book should be required reading for all world citizens, but especially those of us who carry American ...

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

The nail in the coffin of the Soviet State
"A stone is not a human being, and even stones get crushed." This was an absolutely brutal, yet enlightening read. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a young, decorated Red Army officer who served bravely during the war, only to be arrested, tortured, and sent to the Gulag ...

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, Parts I - II

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

HarperCollins Publisher, 1974

Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Archipelago refers to many great ports scattered from the Bering Strait to Bosporus.There were thousands of small islands where people were transported for varying periods of time. In addition, there were transit prisons at Ust-Usa and portable confinements by ...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet Classics)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Signet Classics, 2008

only one day in the gulag
No study of the Soviet Union could be complete without reading "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", By Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Unlike Solzhenitsyn's later novels "The First Circle" or "The Gulag Archipelago" that explore the life of a zeck (political prisoners) in ...

Cancer Ward

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991

A masterpiece old-school Russian style...
No one writes a fat, sprawling, old-fashioned Russian novel quite like a Russian. To the ranks of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, you can add Solzhenitsyn and to novels like *The Brothers Karamazov* and *Anna Karenina* you can add *Cancer Ward.* In fact, *Cancer Ward,* like ...

The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn

Solomon Volkov

Knopf, 2008

Volkov magic!
The Magical Chorus is not only a fierce and fearsome look at a century and a half of Russian history, but a tantalizing journey behind the appearances of history, with insight only Solomon Volkov can forge. Volkov stalks his books stealthily page by page until capture; ...

The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

Major Step Forward for English Readers
This set is a major step forward to the presentation and understanding of Solzhenitsyn to English speaking readers. It is a process that will still take years, but I suspect this volume will be pivotal. In the early days, the writer's books were rushed into print ...

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007

The best book I have read in years! A real eye-opener.
For any who have any nostalgia for the Soviet Union, this book should put it to rest. This book is hard to categorize; it is more than one man's opinion, but less than an objective history. It is, as Solzhenitsyn puts it, "an experiment in literary investigation": a ...

We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Two compelling short novels from a master author
This is a collection of two short novels written by Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that appeared in the January 1963 issue of a Soviet literary magazine called "Novy Mir." The first novel, "An Incident at Krechetovka Station," centers around ...

Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile

Joseph Pearce

Baker Books, 2001

Portrays a complex man of integrity and faith
Solzhenitsyn: A Soul In Exile is a new biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn portraying a complex man of integrity and faith, and whose anti-materialist stance and call for a "moral revolution" are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago. Biographer Joseph Pearce ...

Character Counts: Leadership Qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln, and Solzhenitsyn

Baker Books, 1999

As this book shows, Lincoln was a great man (get over it!).
I'm dismayed to see the severely outdated political agenda of the Allens of North Carolina overshadow their opinions and reviews of Dr. Guinness' excellent book. I really doubt that the Oxford-educated Dr. Guinness should be "ashamed" of himself for his "lack of ...

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 I-II

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Harper & Row, 1973

If It Sounds Too Good to be True, It Probably Is!
Gulag Archipelago is the award winning expose that shocked the world with its revelations about the true nature of life in the, "worker's paradise," a.k.a, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) The author, a once dedicated Communist himself, shows how ...

August 1914

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

Inexorable flow of events
This is a momentous work - quite unlike FIRST CIRCLE or the GULAG ARCHIPELAGO. Solzhenitsyn cannot himself from centering on people. Despite the epic events depicted, the start of WW1, the Battle of Tannenburg, the meeting of cultures, in the end this is a book of ...

The Soul and Barbed Wire: An Introduction to Solzhenitsyn
Jr., Edward E. Ericson, Alexis Klimoff

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008

Authored by two eminent Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn scholars, The Soul and Barbed Wire is the first and only book to offer both a detailed biography and a comprehensive appraisal of the literary achievement of the Nobel prize?winning author who became one of the Soviet regime?s most formidable foes. The book begins with a detailed biographical survey ...