Northern Illinois University Press Publishes New Solzhenitsyn Inquiry

A new book on Solzhenitsyn is out this month, Solzhenitsyn: The Historical-Spiritual Destinies of Russia and the West.  According to Solzhenitsyn scholar Dan Mahoney, “Lee Congdon has succeeded in encapsulating Solzhenitsyn’s intellectual engagement with the twentieth century through an integration of Solzhenitsyn’s corpus into its historical, political, philosophical, and religious context.  This is a masterful accomplishment and a major contribution to the field of Solzhenitsyn studies.”

First Complete English Translation of The Red Wheelto Be Published

As highlighted in The Guardian this week, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic The Red Wheel will soon be published in English for the first time in its entirety. 

“You might say that he caught the last train of departing memory. He was able to interview some of the last living participants of those fateful days in 1917, and of the Russian civil war that followed. His childhood years were the fearsome Soviet 1920s and early 1930s, when the revolution was in fact still ongoing, completely reshaping the old order amidst an atmosphere of terror. Born just a year after the revolution, he breathed its powerful, both terrifying—and for some, edifying—air.”

— Stephan Solzhenitsyn

Kennan Institute Launches Solzhenitsyn Initiative

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute has launched the Solzhenitsyn Initiative to translate major works by Solzhenitsyn for the first time into English.