{"product_id":"detente-democracy-and-dictatorship-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-9781412810302","title":"Detente, Democracy and Dictatorship","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe subject of \u003cem\u003eDetente, Democracy and Dictatorship\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003cem\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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 \u003cem\u003eGulag Archipelago\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1412810302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781412810302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2009 pg. 48","brand":"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052821606655,"sku":"9781412810302","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b96b78a-f37c-4eb8-9d16-b83e7cd582c3.jpg?v=1685020924","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/detente-democracy-and-dictatorship-aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-9781412810302","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}