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