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    612-822-4611

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Seeing Red

Seeing Red

Congdon, Lee

Hardcover

Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Austrian & Hungarian HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0875802834
ISBN13: 9780875802831
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ
Published: Aug 1 2001
Pages: 235
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

This study of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his writings focuses on his reflections on the religiopolitical trajectories of Russia and the West, understood as distinct civilizations. In his examination of the author 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 outlines the Bolshevik victory in the civil war, the origins of the concentration camp system, and the Bolsheviks' war on Christianity and the Russian Orthodox Church. He then focuses on Solzhenitsyn's arrest near the war's end, his time in the labor camps, and his struggle with cancer. Congdon describes his time in exile and increasing alienation from the Western way of life, as well as his return home and his final years. 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. This important study will appeal to scholars and educated general readers with an interest in Solzhenitsyn, Russia, Christianity, and the fate of Western civilization.

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