Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Collection

1. AUGUST 1914: The Red Wheel, Knot I (.ePUB)(.PDF)
The monumental first volume of Solzhenitsyn's epic cycle, "The Red Wheel" concentrates on the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia.

2. CANDLE IN THE WIND (.PDF)
A play by the Nobel laureate.

3. DÉTENTE: Prospects for Democracy and Dictatorship (.PDF)
Based on two major addresses, especially aimed at Americans, delivered in 1975, both on the subject of detente, democracy and dictatorship.

4. FOR THE GOOD OF THE CAUSE (.PDF)
A novella set in the early 1960s and taking place in a provincial town like Ryazan where the author lived after his release from the gulag and return from exile in the 1950s. When students of the local college help to build new college premises, the Soviet authorities order that the building be handed over to a research institute "for the good of the cause."

5. THE LOVE-GIRL AND THE INNOCENT (.PDF)
A play set in one of the work camps of post-1945 Russia, most of whose denizens are political prisoners serving ten or twenty year sentences.

6. REBUILDING RUSSIA: Reflections and Tentative Proposals (.PDF)
A bitter indictment of recent Soviet history, including the much-heralded reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev. At the centre of his attack is an urgent call for the disbanding of the monolithic Soviet Union and the resurrection of a nation comprising the three Slavic republics of Russia, the Ukraine, and Byelorussia, and parts of Kazakhstan.

7. STORIES AND PROSE POEMS (.PDF)
Twenty-two works of widely varied style and character, these shorter pieces demonstrate the extraordinary mastery of language that places Solzhenitsyn among the greatest Russian prose writers of the last century.

8. THE VOICE OF FREEDOM (.PDF)
Two 1975 addresses to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

9. "WE NEVER MAKE MISTAKES" (.PDF)
Two powerful short novels: In "An Incident at Krechetovka Station," a Red Army lieutenant is confronted by a disturbing straggler soldier and must decide what to do with him. "Matryona's House" is the tale of an old peasant woman, whose tenacious struggle against cold, hunger, and greedy relatives is described by a young man who only understands her after her death.