Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Books

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is famous for his opposition to the Communist government of the USSR and his books that helped topple that regime.

A member of the Red Army, he dared speak out against Stalin and was arrested and sent to a gulag forced labor camp. That experience forms the basis of his best-selling “The Gulag Archipelago.” Published in 1973 it brought global attention to the horrors inside Soviet Russia at a time when the West’s opposition to Communism was fading and galvanized the world against its evils. That sad, it’s moral and political impact on the world cannot be overestimated.

The book won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature and was Time magazine called it The Best NonFicton Book of the 20th Century.

The most recent edition of the book includes a new forward by Jordan Peterson.

Solzhenitsyn is a member of the Russian Orthodox faith, and consistently wrote about how Communism sought to snuff out Christianity as it posed a fundamental threat. He also used Christianity to help connect Russia to the West.

Being expelled to West Germany in 1974 he shortly thereafter took up residence in the United States where he remained before returning to Russia after the collapse of the USSR. While in the US he admired the ground-up democracy of the country, but derided what he saw as a tendency for materialism, the erosion of its Christian heritage and overall weakness.

The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]