First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 1st, 2001
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN: THE ASCENT FROM IDEOLOGY. By DANIEL J. MAHONEY. Rowman & Littlefield. 181 pp. $21.95.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN, the Russian writer and former Soviet dissident, is not yet dead, but he is in danger of fading into oblivion in the West and of being dismissed as a crank in his own country. This is a terrible shame. For Solzhenitsyn is one of the giants of the twentieth century--a heroic witness to truth who resisted Communist tyranny and exposed the horrors of Soviet forced-labor camps in The Gulag Archipelago. He is also a powerful novelist whose works of historical ficti...
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