The Politics of Solzhenitsyn

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as a Political Writer....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Soviet society as a prison-house....Pages 15-23
The Gulag Archipelago (A) Soviet courts and law in theory and practice....Pages 24-34
The Gulag Archipelago (B) Soviet penology in theory and practice....Pages 35-41
The Gulag Archipelago (C) Soviet camps and their effect on Soviet society....Pages 42-48
Soviet society as distorter of reality and the individual....Pages 49-55
The nature of the individual and the rights of humans....Pages 56-66
Internationalism, the nation in history, and the obligations of individuals....Pages 67-75
Literary postscript....Pages 76-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
The Nobel Prize speech: Repentance and self-limitation....Pages 87-95
Letter to Soviet leaders, as breathing and consciousness return: Advice to the Soviet people, ‘Do not live by lies’....Pages 96-108
Lenin in Zürich....Pages 109-121
Solzhenitsyn in Zürich and abroad....Pages 122-140
Solzhenitsyn’s intellectual tradition....Pages 141-148
Conclusion....Pages 149-152
Back Matter....Pages 153-162