{"product_id":"solzhenitsyn-a-documentary-record-edited-by-leopold-labedz","title":"'Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record' edited by Leopold Labedz","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"515\"\u003eA constructed archive of letters, essays, speeches, commentary all assembled to map the force-field around \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eAleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e at the moment he became explosive to the public.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"515\"\u003eThe book captures not just the man, but the reaction to him, all the Soviet hostility, Western fascination, intellectual factionalism, the uneasy business of turning dissent into symbol into action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"969\"\u003eSolzhenitsyn appears as morally insistent, politically abrasive, resistant to easy alignment. The documents don’t smooth him out; they multiply him. You see the prison witness, the nationalist, the literary craftsman, the ideological irritant. The editorial approach lets contradiction stand. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"971\" data-end=\"1319\"\u003eIt also doubles as a snapshot of Cold War intellectual culture at full tension—how writers were read as geopolitical actors, how literature leaked into policy, how quickly moral clarity could become instrumentalised. There’s a kind of historical vertigo in it: the sense that ideas mattered enough to be dangerous, but also enough to be repurposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1334\" data-end=\"1450\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin paperback (1972). Solid reading copy—general age toning, some cover wear and edge softening, binding intact.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44531071549523,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext_13.png?v=1777163605","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/solzhenitsyn-a-documentary-record-edited-by-leopold-labedz","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}