The Solzhenitsyn Files: Secret Soviet Documents Reveal One Man's Fight Against The Monolith
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is indicative only and does not represent the condition of this copy. For information about the condition of this book you can email us.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Behind the iron curtain, a literary giant waged a silent war against the most powerful state apparatus in the world — and the Kremlin kept meticulous records of every move it made against him. The Solzhenitsyn Files presents a gripping collection of secret Soviet Communist Party documents, declassified after the fall of the USSR, that chronicle the decades-long campaign by the Soviet state to suppress, discredit, and ultimately expel Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one of the twentieth century's most courageous and consequential writers. Edited and introduced by preeminent Solzhenitsyn biographer Michael Scammell, the volume translates the bureaucratic machinery of totalitarian repression into a vivid, human narrative of one man's defiance against an all-powerful monolith. The documents gathered here illuminate the inner workings of Soviet censorship, KGB surveillance, and Politburo deliberation with chilling specificity, offering historians and general readers alike an unparalleled window into the mechanics of authoritarian control. Scammell's authoritative editorial voice frames each document within its broader historical context, transforming a trove of archival material into a coherent and deeply unsettling portrait of state power confronting individual conscience. For anyone who has read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich or The Gulag Archipelago, this volume raises an urgent question: what does it truly cost a regime to silence a single, indomitable voice?
Author: Michael Scammell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1995, Edition q, inc.
Genre: Cold war & espionage
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Behind the iron curtain, a literary giant waged a silent war against the most powerful state apparatus in the world — and the Kremlin kept meticulous records of every move it made against him. The Solzhenitsyn Files presents a gripping collection of secret Soviet Communist Party documents, declassified after the fall of the USSR, that chronicle the decades-long campaign by the Soviet state to suppress, discredit, and ultimately expel Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one of the twentieth century's most courageous and consequential writers. Edited and introduced by preeminent Solzhenitsyn biographer Michael Scammell, the volume translates the bureaucratic machinery of totalitarian repression into a vivid, human narrative of one man's defiance against an all-powerful monolith. The documents gathered here illuminate the inner workings of Soviet censorship, KGB surveillance, and Politburo deliberation with chilling specificity, offering historians and general readers alike an unparalleled window into the mechanics of authoritarian control. Scammell's authoritative editorial voice frames each document within its broader historical context, transforming a trove of archival material into a coherent and deeply unsettling portrait of state power confronting individual conscience. For anyone who has read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich or The Gulag Archipelago, this volume raises an urgent question: what does it truly cost a regime to silence a single, indomitable voice?