Solzhenitsyn: The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2017
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781609092245
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780875807652, 9781501755231, 9781501755415
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/15/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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