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Solzhenitsyn: The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West

Solzhenitsyn: The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Lee CongdonSeries:Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2017-09-15Pages:174
Language:EnglishPublisher:Northern Illinois University PressISBN-13:9780875807652ISBN-10:875807658UPC:9780875807652Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, Russia, PoliticalSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCF2AGT2MH

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Northern Illinois University PressISBN-13:9780875807652ISBN-10:875807658UPC:9780875807652Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, Russia, PoliticalSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCF2AGT2MH

Lee Congdon is professor emeritus of history at James Madison University and the author of six previous books, including George Kennan and Seeing Red.


Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

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Lee Congdon

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