Winter 2025

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Volume I (parts I-II). Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. New York: Harper & Row. 660 pp. In his review of The Gulag Archipelago–by far the most …

August 1914, the first installment of Solzhenitsyn’s broadly conceived historical trilogy, thus far has had a mixed reception. The publication of the Russian text of the novel in Paris has provided an occasion for another virulent Soviet campaign against its …