Seeing Red

Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism

By: Lee Congdon

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Hardcover | 1 August 2001

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236 Pages

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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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"Superb and moving." Istvan Deak, "East European Politics and Societies""Pioneering!... A stimulating and skillfully written analysis of the Hungarian emigre political left." Joseph Held, Editor of "The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century"" "Superb and moving."--Istvan Deak, "East European Politics and Societies""Pioneering!... A stimulating and skillfully written analysis of the Hungarian emigre political left."--Joseph Held, Editor of "The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century"

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