Solzhenitsyn : the historical-spiritual destinies of Russia and the West / Lee Congdon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Congdon, Lee, 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008--Political and social views.

Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich.

East and West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 pages)

Place of Publication:

DeKalb, Illinois : NIU Press, [2017]

Summary:

In this examination of Solzhenitsyn and his work, Lee Congdon explores the consequences of the atheistic socialism that drove the Russian revolutionary movement. Beginning with a description of the post-revolutionary Russia into which Solzhenitsyn was born, Congdon addresses the Bolshevik victory in the civil war, the origins of the concentration camp system, the Bolsheviks' war on Christianity and the Russian Orthodox Church, Solzhenitsyn's arrest near the war's end, his time in the labor camps, his struggle with cancer, his exile and increasing alienation from the Western way of life, and his return home. He concludes with a reminder of Solzhenitsyn's warning to the West-that it was on a path parallel to that which Russia had followed into the abyss.

Contents:

Preface

Revolution and war

In the gulag

Thorn in their side

In the West

The return

Warning to the West.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781609092245

1609092244