Description
Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhjenitsyn was famous for his novels depicting the abuses of the Gulag system under Stalin, where he was imprisoned for many years, but was also kicked out of the Soviet Union for decades until its fall. During his time in exile, he gave several speeches worldwide, especially in Western Europe and the United States. This volume collects some of those speeches, including his Nobel Prize acceptance speeches and the Harvard Address, two of his most well-known speeches. Most of his speeches examine the materialistic world and a possible path forward out of it, which may be something that readers should embrace in today’s world, with his current hostile political environment. Each speech has an introduction, putting the speech into the historical context of Aleksandr’s life and the background of why he gave a speech at that particular time and place. The speeches have been translated by Aleksandr’s sons, who also wrote the introductory and timeline material, who are helping to keep the work of their father in the public eye, as Aleksandr was an author who was not afraid to hold a mirror up to those in power.
