Detente, Democracy and Dictatorship

3. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-52226-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 138 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 364 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: America: You Must Think About the World; 2: Communism: A Legacy of Terror; 3: The Exhausted West; 4: I Am Not Afraid of Death: An Interview; Postscript: The Gulag Archipelago: The Anthropology of Life, Death, and Redemption

Über Autor(innen)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn