Solzhenitsyn : [electronic resource] a biography / Michael Scammell.

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 1019-1023) and index.

Out of chaos and suffering -- Childhood -- Farewell to the old world -- Writer and communist -- Marriage -- Fighting for the fatherland -- Arrest -- An enemy of the toiling masses -- Two are an organization -- First steps in the Archipelago -- To the new Jerusalem -- Life among the trusties -- Special-assignment prisoner -- In the first circle -- The parting of the ways -- Not quite Siberia -- A son of Gulag -- Exiled "in perpetuity" -- Cancer ward -- Matryona's place -- The schoolmaster from Ryazan -- On the threshold -- Breakthrough -- A true helper of the party -- The crest of the wave -- First doubts -- Lenin Prize candidate -- Not another Pasternak -- Enter the KGB -- The turning point -- A period of adjustment -- The best form of defence -- Letter to the Writers' Congress -- Playing the western card -- Portrait of the artist at fifty -- Expulsion from the Writers' Union -- The taming of Novy Mir -- The Nobel Prize -- The start of a vast enterprise -- Death of a poet -- Whose life is it anyway? -- Divorce -- Coming into the open -- The Gulag Archipelago -- Deported -- First months in the West -- Taking positions -- Clarifications -- On the move -- Talking to the Europeans -- The sage of Vermont -- Epilogue.