Author: Aleksandr SolzhenitsynPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374513341
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Speeches given to the Americans and to the British from June 30, 1975 to March 24, 1976.
Warning to the West
Author: Aleksandr SolzhenitsynPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374513341
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Speeches given to the Americans and to the British from June 30, 1975 to March 24, 1976.
The Revolution of Nihilism
Author: Hermann RauschningPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258001070
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
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Between Two Millstones, Book 1
Author: Aleksandr SolzhenitsynPublisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268105049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Russian Nobel prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures—and perhaps the most important writer—of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones, Book 1, is being published. Fast-paced, absorbing, and as compelling as the earlier installments of his memoir The Oak and the Calf (1975), Between Two Millstones begins on February 13, 1974, when Solzhenitsyn found himself forcibly expelled to Frankfurt, West Germany, as a result of the publication in the West of The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn moved to Zurich, Switzerland, for a time and was considered the most famous man in the world, hounded by journalists and reporters. During this period, he found himself untethered and unable to work while he tried to acclimate to his new surroundings. Between Two Millstones contains vivid descriptions of Solzhenitsyn's journeys to various European countries and North American locales, where he and his wife Natalia (“Alya”) searched for a location to settle their young family. There are fascinating descriptions of one-on-one meetings with prominent individuals, detailed accounts of public speeches such as the 1978 Harvard University commencement, comments on his television appearances, accounts of his struggles with unscrupulous publishers and agents who mishandled the Western editions of his books, and the KGB disinformation efforts to besmirch his name. There are also passages on Solzhenitsyn's family and their property in Cavendish, Vermont, whose forested hillsides and harsh winters evoked his Russian homeland, and where he could finally work undisturbed on his ten-volume dramatized history of the Russian Revolution, The Red Wheel. Stories include the efforts made to assure a proper education for the writer's three sons, their desire to return one day to their home in Russia, and descriptions of his extraordinary wife, editor, literary advisor, and director of the Russian Social Fund, Alya, who successfully arranged, at great peril to herself and to her family, to smuggle Solzhenitsyn's invaluable archive out of the Soviet Union. Between Two Millstones is a literary event of the first magnitude. The book dramatically reflects the pain of Solzhenitsyn's separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm of miscomprehension between him and Western society.
Solzhenitsyn
Author: Lee CongdonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501755412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
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.
Fascism: A Warning
Author: Madeleine AlbrightPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006293127X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of the most admired public servants in American history, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state A Fascist, observed Madeleine Albright, “is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have.” The twentieth century was defined by the clash between democracy and Fascism, a struggle that created uncertainty about the survival of human freedom and left millions dead. Given the horrors of that experience, one might expect the world to reject the spiritual successors to Hitler and Mussolini should they arise in our era. Fascism: A Warning is drawn from Madeleine Albright's experiences as a child in war-torn Europe and her distinguished career as a diplomat to question that assumption. Fascism, as she shows, not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. The momentum toward democracy that swept the world when the Berlin Wall fell has gone into reverse. The United States, which historically championed the free world, is led by a president who exacerbates division and heaps scorn on democratic institutions. In many countries, economic, technological, and cultural factors are weakening the political center and empowering the extremes of right and left. Contemporary leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are employing many of the tactics used by Fascists in the 1920s and 30s. Fascism: A Warning is a book for our times that is relevant to all times. Written by someone who not only studied history but helped to shape it, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past.
Letter to Soviet Leaders
Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡ynPublisher: London : Collins : Harvill Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Also published in Index on Censorship, April 1974.
From Under the Rubble
Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡ynPublisher: Gateway Editions
ISBN: 9780895268907
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A World Split Apart
Author: Александр Исаевич СолженицынPublisher: New York : Harper & Row
ISBN: 9780060906900
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Warning to the West
Author: Alexandre Isaevitch SoljenitsynePublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Author: Shridharani