The Solzhenitsyn Reader

by Ericson, Edward E., JR.

ISBN13: 9781933859002

ISBN10: 1933859008

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 2006-11-01

Publisher(s): Isi Books

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Summary

This reader, compiled by renowned Solzhenitsyn scholars Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney in collaboration with the Solzhenitsyn family, provides in one volume a rich and representative selection of Solzhenitsyn's voluminous works. Reproduced in their entirety are early poems, early and late short stories, early and late "miniatures" (or prose poems), and many of Solzhenitsynrs"s famous-and not-so-famous-essays and speeches. The volume also includes excerpts from Solzhenitsyn's great novels, memoirs, books of political analysis and historical scholarship, and the literary and historical masterpiecesThe Gulag ArchipelagoandThe Red Wheel. More than one-quarter of the material has never before appeared in English (the authorrs"s sons prepared many of the new translations themselves).The Solzhenitsyn Readerreveals a writer of genius, an intransigent opponent of ideological tyranny and moral relativism, and a thinker and moral witness who is acutely sensitive to the great drama of good and evil that takes place within every human soul. It will be for many years the definitive Solzhenitsyn collection.

Author Biography

Edward E. Ericson, Jr. is professor of English, emeritus, at Calvin College. A longtime Solzhenitsyn scholar, he is editor of the authorized abridgment of The Gulag Archipelago (1985, 2002) and author of Solzhenitsyn: The Moral Vision(1980) and Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World (1993).

Daniel J. Mahoney is Professor of Political Science at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. An expert on French political philosophy and anti-totalitarian thought, his books include: The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron: A Critical Introduction(1992) ; De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy(1996 and 2000); Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology(2001); and Bertrand de Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of Modernity(2005).

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Editors' Introduction	p. xv
The Trail	p. 1
5 "Besed"	p. 4
Poems: Prison, Camp, and Exile	p. 18
Prisoner's Right	p. 20
Acathistus	p. 21
"Death-not as chasm"	p. 22
Stories	p. 23
Matryona's Home	p. 24
The Easter Procession	p. 57
What a Pity	p. 62
No Matter What	p. 67
The Oak and the Calf	p. 85
1 The Writer Underground	p. 87
The First Circle	p. 101
1 Torpedo	p. 105
2 A Blunder	p. 110
26 Sawing Wood	p. 113
36 Phonoscopy	p. 122
47 An Argument	p. 127
60 But You Are Given Only One Conscience, Too	p. 129
61 The Uncle from Tver	p. 133
66 Going to the People	p. 139
85 Prince Kurbsky	p. 143
Cancer Ward	p. 149
10 The Children	p. 151
28 Bad Luck All Around	p. 163
35 The First Day of Creation	p. 167
36...and the Last Day	p. 188
The Gulag Archipelago	p. 210
Prefatory Note	p. 216
I.1 Arrest	p. 218
I.4 The Bluecaps	p. 223
III.7 The Way of Life and Customs of the Natives	p. 238
III.17 The Kids	p. 241
IV.1 The Ascent	p. 253
IV.2 Or Corruption?	p. 268
V.5 Poetry Under a Tombstone, Truth Under a Stone	p. 274
V.12 The Forty Days of Kengir	p. 279
VI.2 The Peasant Plague	p. 294
VI.7 Zeks at Liberty	p. 302
From the Afterword	p. 307
The Red Wheel	p. 308
August 1914
48 The Final Hours of Commander Samsonov	p. 318
58 Through the Eyes of a Horse	p. 326
69 Stolypin's Last Days	p. 332
82 Convocation at Headquarters	p. 343
November 1916
6 Not the Vilest Form of Evil	p. 357
37 The Skittle Club	p. 364
75 An Arduous Confession	p. 382
March 1917
17 The Toppled Tram	p. 399
29 On the Streets	p. 403
111 About Town	p. 407
101, 122, 185 The Wheeled Battalion	p. 410
204 The Streets Rejoice	p. 415
349 The Abdication of Nicholas II	p. 419
418 The Killing of Nepenin	p. 433
531 Produced for Inspection	p. 438
655 Lenin's Pirouettes	p. 443
April 1917
27 Disabled Veterans Demonstrate	p. 453
186 Vorotyntsev on the Mogilev Rampart	p. 460
Russia in Collapse	p. 464
Foreword	p. 467
Will We Russians Continue to Be?	p. 473
Two Hundred Years Together	p. 485
Introduction: Approaching the Theme	p. 488
I.8 At the Turn of the Twentieth Century	p. 491
I.9 In the Revolution of 1905	p. 495
II.15 Among the Bolsheviks	p. 498
II.16 During the Civil War	p. 506
Essays and Speeches	p. 508
Open Letter to the Secretariat of the RSFSR Writers' Union	p. 509
Nobel Lecture	p. 512
Repentance and Self-Limitation in the Life of Nations	p. 527
Live Not by Lies!	p. 556
Harvard Address	p. 561
Templeton Lecture	p. 576
Playing Upon the Strings of Emptiness	p. 585
We have ceased to see the Purpose	p. 591
A Reflection on the Vendee Uprising	p. 602
Cavendish Farewell	p. 606
Greeting at Vladivostok	p. 608
Message at the Opening of the Center for Russian Culture Abroad	p. 610
Miniatures	p. 612
1958-60	p. 614
1996-99	p. 625
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