Format:
xv, 451 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780268105013
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0268105014
Series Statement:
The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn series
Uniform Title:
Ugodilo zërnyshko promezh dvukh zhernovov
Content:
"Solzhenitsyn's memoir deals with events, episodes, and individuals of great historical and political significance. In Between Two Millstones, Solzhenitsyn gives an account of his first few bewildering months in the West after being forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He discusses his personal meetings with Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II. Included in this work too, are Solzhenitsyn's views on the Cold War, Gorbachev's reforms, and the chaotic first few years of post -Soviet Russia, as well as his warnings of what was to come (including with respect to Ukraine). Solzhenitsyn's controversial observations on the West are also included; where he takes aim at the behaviors on display in the literary world, the abuses of freedom in larger society, and the groupthink that, he says, renders nominally free Western society as monolithic in its prevailing opinions as dictatorial Communist society was. And both these monoliths turn in unison like millstones, grinding away together against the west's and Russia's Christian heritage, against the wisdom of centuries, and against historical memory"--
Content:
Book 1. Sketches of exile 1974-1978. -- Untethered -- Robbers and fools -- Another year en route -- At Five Brooks -- Through the smoke
Note:
"This is the first publication in English of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's memoirs of his years in the West, Ugodilo zyornyshko promezh dvukh zhernovov: ocherki izgnaniya. They are being published here as two books: The present first book contains Part One. The forthcoming second book, under the title Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978/??1994, contains Parts Two, Three, and Four"-- Publisher's note
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Includes bibliographic references and index
In:
Book 1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780268105037
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008, author Between two millstones Notre Dame, Indiana : University Of Notre Dame Press, [2018]
Language:
English
Subjects:
Slavic Studies
Keywords:
Autobiografie
Author information:
Solženicyn, Aleksandr Isaevič 1918-2008
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