THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO Vol. I Translated by THOMAS P. WHITNEY 660 pages. Harper & Row. $12.50. (Paperbound $1.95.)
LETTER TO THE SOVIET LEADERS
Translated by HILARY STERNBERG 59 pages. Harper & Row. $3.50. by ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Why is it that a major Christian writer has appeared in Russia where the Christians have been oppressed for decades, while in the West, where there is complete freedom of religious practice, literature is nearly synonymous with agnosticism and moral relativism? Czeslaw Milosz, author of The Captive Mind
Americans have followed Alexander Solzhenitsyn's distant struggle with the Soviet government...