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Solzhenitsyn: A Biography (Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature) - Hardcover

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Scammell, Michael

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9780367720711: Solzhenitsyn: A Biography (Routledge Library Editions: Russian and Soviet Literature)
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ISBN 10: 036772071X ISBN 13: 9780367720711
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn. Starting with his childhood, it covers every period of his life in considerable detail, showing how Solzhenitsyn’s development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society: ambitious and idealistic in the twenties and thirties, preoccupied with the struggle for survival in the forties, hopeful in the fifties and sixties and disillusioned in the seventies. Solzhenitsyn’s life thus serves as a paradigm for the history of twentieth-century Communism and for the intelligentsia’s attitudes to Communism. At the same time, this book relates Solzhenitsyn’s life to his works, all of which contain a large element of autobiography.

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Michael Scammell

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
036772071X
ISBN 13 
9780367720711
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
1066
Rating
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