Solzhenitsyn: A BiographyThis book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn. Starting with his childhood, it covers every period of his life in considerable detail, showing how Solzhenitsyn’s development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society: ambitious and idealistic in the twenties and thirties, preoccupied with the struggle for survival in the forties, hopeful in the fifties and sixties and disillusioned in the seventies. Solzhenitsyn’s life thus serves as a paradigm for the history of twentieth-century Communism and for the intelligentsia’s attitudes to Communism. At the same time, this book relates Solzhenitsyn’s life to his works, all of which contain a large element of autobiography. |
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A Biography Michael Scammell. , IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER FREDERICK AND CONSTANCE SCAMMELL , WHO DID NOT LIVE TO SEE THIS BOOK COMPLETED Solzhenitsyn during his first months as a prisoner (Sevil)
A Biography Michael Scammell. Solzhenitsyn during his first months as a prisoner (Sevil) Solzhenitsyn speaks from another tradition and this, for me, is.
... LIFE IS IT ANYWAY ? 42] DIVORCE 43] COMING INTO THE OPEN 44] THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO 45] DEPORTED 46] FIRST MONTHS IN THE WEST 47] TAKING POSITIONS 48] CLARIFICATIONS 49] ON THE MOVE 50] TALKING TO THE EUROPEANS 51] THE SAGE OF VERMONT.
... month Red forces abandoned Armavir, where the Shcherbaks had their estate, and in August they were forced out of the Kuban capital of Ekaterinodar. During the next three months the fighting raged back and forth over the countryside ...
... months before these painful events, there had occurred another incident that would have sunk into oblivion, had it ... month in bed before it was completely healed. 9 8 * An approximate translation of the original insult, which was based ...
Contents
25 THE CREST OF THE WAVE | |
26 FIRST DOUBTS | |
27 LENIN PRIZE CANDIDATE | |
28 NOT ANOTHER PASTERNAK | |
29 ENTER THE | |
30 THE TURNING | |
31 A PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT | |
32 THE BEST FORM OF DEFENCE | |
8 AN ENEMY OF THE TOILING MASSES | |
9 TWO ARE AN ORGANIZATION | |
10 FIRST STEPS IN THE ARCHIPELAGO | |
11 TO THE NEW JERUSALEM | |
12 LIFE AMONG THE TRUSTIES | |
13 SPECIAL | |
14 IN THE FIRST CIRCLE | |
15 THE PARTING OF THE WAYS | |
16 NOT QUITE SIBERIA | |
17 A SON OF GULAG | |
18 EXILED IN PERPETUITY | |
19 CANCER WARD | |
20 MATRYONAS PLACE | |
21 THE SCHOOLMASTER FROM RYAZAN | |
22 ON THE THRESHOLD | |
23 BREAKTHROUGH | |
24 A TRUE HELPER OF THE PARTY | |
33 LETTER TO THE WRITERS CONGRESS | |
34 PLAYING THE WESTERN CARD | |
35 PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AT FIFTY | |
36 EXPULSION FROM THE WRITERS UNION | |
37 THE TAMING OF NOW MIR 38 THE NOBEL PRIZE | |
39 THE START OF A VAST ENTERPRISE | |
40 DEATH OF A POET | |
41 WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY | |
42 DIVORCE | |
43 COMING INTO THE OPEN | |
44 THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO | |
45 DEPORTED | |
46 FIRST MONTHS IN THE WEST | |
47 TAKING POSITIONS | |
48 CLARIFICATIONS | |
49 ON THE MOVE | |
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