Solzhenitsyn And The Secret Circle
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Behind the Iron Curtain, where literature was both weapon and contraband, one woman found herself at the centre of one of the Cold War's most dramatic literary conspiracies. Solzhenitsyn and the Secret Circle is Olga Carlisle's firsthand account of her clandestine collaboration with Alexander Solzhenitsyn — the Nobel Prize-winning dissident whose works shook the Soviet Union to its foundations — and the covert network of trusted allies who risked everything to smuggle his manuscripts to the West. Carlisle, granddaughter of the Russian writer Leonid Andreyev and intimately connected to Russia's literary elite, chronicles her years of secret meetings, coded communications, and the ultimately fractured trust that would end a remarkable partnership. Written with the intimacy of a memoir and the urgency of a political thriller, this account illuminates the impossible pressures faced by artists under totalitarian rule, and the human frailties — jealousy, fear, and betrayal — that could fracture even the most principled alliances. Carlisle's prose is precise and emotionally charged, drawing the reader into a shadowy world where a single manuscript could mean imprisonment or exile. A compelling portrait of courage and moral compromise in equal measure, this book leaves one asking: when the stakes are this high, who can truly be trusted?
Author: Olga Carlisle
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Behind the Iron Curtain, where literature was both weapon and contraband, one woman found herself at the centre of one of the Cold War's most dramatic literary conspiracies. Solzhenitsyn and the Secret Circle is Olga Carlisle's firsthand account of her clandestine collaboration with Alexander Solzhenitsyn — the Nobel Prize-winning dissident whose works shook the Soviet Union to its foundations — and the covert network of trusted allies who risked everything to smuggle his manuscripts to the West. Carlisle, granddaughter of the Russian writer Leonid Andreyev and intimately connected to Russia's literary elite, chronicles her years of secret meetings, coded communications, and the ultimately fractured trust that would end a remarkable partnership. Written with the intimacy of a memoir and the urgency of a political thriller, this account illuminates the impossible pressures faced by artists under totalitarian rule, and the human frailties — jealousy, fear, and betrayal — that could fracture even the most principled alliances. Carlisle's prose is precise and emotionally charged, drawing the reader into a shadowy world where a single manuscript could mean imprisonment or exile. A compelling portrait of courage and moral compromise in equal measure, this book leaves one asking: when the stakes are this high, who can truly be trusted?