Solzhenitsyn Author:David Burg, George Feifer ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN has been subject to as much harassment as the Soviet government is likely to perpetrate upon such a prominent citizen. It has not been the sort of persecution that has sent outstanding scientists or leaner-known intellectuals to mental hospitals. Nor has he been punished with the severity of another order which put writers... more » such as Sinyavsky and Daniel in prison. But the government has prohibited his being published within the Soviet Union and has subjected Solzhenitsyn to intense personal intimidation. In Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, David Burg and George Feifer concern themselves primarily with the difficulties between Solzhenitsyn and his government.
Excerpt from The Harvard Crimson (Review)
The life of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn has now been made available to the English-reading world by the cooperative authorship of an American writer who specializes in Russian affaires, Feifer, and a Russian-born journalist who writes for London papers, Burg. In fact, in preparation of this volume some of Feifer's notes were illegally confiscated by the Soviet KGB, and Feifer was told never again to return to the U.S.S.R.
The two authors have effectively combined pure narrative with extensive interpretation of the man and his motivations in interaction against Soviet authorities and with his fellow prisoners and later his fellow dissidents.
Excerpt from a review published in Journal of Church and State (via JSTOR)« less