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

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

Congdon, Lee

Hardcover

Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismRussian History

ISBN10: 0875807658
ISBN13: 9780875807652
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ
Published: Sep 15 2017
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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