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Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago - 1918-1956 - Volumes I-VII (1973)

Wikipedia: The Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago is a three-volume, non-fiction text written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was first published in 1973,...

F. A. MacKenzie

The Russian Crucifixion: The full story of the persecution or Religion under Bolshevism (1930)

The Russian Crucifixion: The full story of the persecution or Religion under Bolshevism (1930) by F. A. MacKenzie

 Preface

THIS book is a record, a protest, and an appeal. I tell of what I myself have seen and learnt of the persecution of religion in Russia, and I voice the appeal of Russian pe...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Men Have Forgotten God: Templeton Address (1983)

Men Have Forgotten God: Templeton Address (1983) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Editor’s Note: This article, which originally ran in the July 22, 1983, issue of NATIONAL REVIEW, is adapted from the address Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave on the occasion of his acceptance, in London on May 10, 1983, of th...

Adam Roberts

Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions (1991)

Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions (1991) by Adam Roberts

Introduction

The death knell of communist rule, which has now ended in all European countries, was sounded not by nuclear weapons, nor even for the most part by the use of military force, but by civil resistance...