Détente, democracy, and dictatorship
By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Contributors: Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008.
Edition: 3rd enlarged ed.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781412810302
Subjects: Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, -- 1918-2008; Civilization, Modern -- 1950-; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1953-1975; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985
Description: "The subject of Detente, Democracy and Dictatorship has been with us since the breakdown of the Cold War and the termination of the Soviet system, indeed, if not since the origins of Bolshevism. No more vigorous critic of the uneasy co-existence of democracy and dictatorship exists than the greatest writer that the Soviet era of Russian history produced, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This third edition is based on major addresses, especially aimed at Americans, delivered in 1975 in Washington, D.C. and New York, and again, in 1978, at Harvard University in Cambridge, all on the subject of detente, democracy and dictatorship. It also includes Solzhenitsyn's final 2007 interview with the German publication "Der Spiegel". These major statements are brilliant and forthright comment on the risks of confusing ideology with diplomacy. But more than that, they summarize the Soviet debacle, the theoretical underpinnings, and distill Solzhenitsyn's multi-volumed masterpiece, the Gulag Archipelago". -- Book cover.
Notes: Previously published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Books, c1980, under title Détente.

Based on addresses delivered in 1975 in Washington, D.C. and New York, and in 1978 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface I: The Washington, DC addresses : an Amnesty International of one / Irving Louis Horowitz; title: Preface II: The Harvard address : the Solzhenitsyn we refuse to see / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; title: Introduction: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn : hero of a dark century / Daniel J. Mahoney; title: America : you must think about the world; title: Communism : a legacy of terror; title: The exhausted West; title: I am not afraid of death : an interview; title: Postscript: The gulag archipelago : the anthropology of life, death, and redemption / Irving Louis Horowitz.