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

  • NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
  • By: Lee Congdon
  • Narrated by: Michael Merica
  • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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

By: Lee Congdon
Narrated by: Michael Merica
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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.

The book is published by Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

"Offers the best guide to Solzhenitsyn's views, including their evolution...." (Times Literary Supplement)

"Congdon's sociohistorical and political focus is formidable.... Highly recommended." (Choice)

"The book's lucid style and choice of illustrative examples make for easy and pleasant reading." (The Russian Review)

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Wow…Unbelievably Prophetic

No one has nailed the west with his predictions like the great Russian Christian Solzhenitsyn. His writings foretold of the plight of the west and the more than idea that what happened in Russia can happen anywhere. Well here we are. He saw it coming and stated as such to outrage. How right he was. We owe Solzhenitsyn for his bravery and truth. Brilliant.

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