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Seeing Red - Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism (Hardcover)
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Seeing Red - Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism (Hardcover)
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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This study of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his writings
focuses on his reflections on the religiopolitical trajectories of
Russia and the West, understood as distinct civilizations. In his
examination of the author and his work, Lee Congdon explores the
consequences of the atheistic socialism that drove the Russian
revolutionary movement. Beginning with a description of the
post-revolutionary Russia into which Solzhenitsyn was born, Congdon
outlines the Bolshevik victory in the civil war, the origins of the
concentration camp system, and the Bolsheviks' war on Christianity
and the Russian Orthodox Church. He then focuses on Solzhenitsyn's
arrest near the war's end, his time in the labor camps, and his
struggle with cancer. Congdon describes his time in exile and
increasing alienation from the Western way of life, as well as his
return home and his final years. He concludes with a reminder of
Solzhenitsyn's warning to the West-that it was on a path parallel
to that which Russia had followed into the abyss. This important
study will appeal to scholars and educated general readers with an
interest in Solzhenitsyn, Russia, Christianity, and the fate of
Western civilization.
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