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Translated from the Russian by Alexis Klimoff and Michael Nicholson.

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.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Preface -- Notes on the Translation -- Introduction -- Part 1: The History of Liberalism, 1762-1855 -- Chapter 1: Catherine II -- Chapter 2: Alexander I -- Chapter 3: Speransky -- Chapter 4: Karamzin -- Chapter 5: The Codification of the Law -- Chapter 7: Nicholas I (continued) -- Chapter 6: Nicholas I -- Part 2: The Development of Civil Liberty, 1856-1914 -- Chapter 8: The Emancipation of the Serfs -- Chapter 9: The Emancipation Laws and Their Later Interpretation -- Chapter 10: Peasant Law -- Chapter 11: The Peasant Question in the Reign of Alexander III -- Chapter 12: The Peasant Question in the Reign of Nicholas II before 1905 -- Chapter 13: The Agrarian Program of the Left-Wing Parties -- Chapter 14: The Peasant Question after 1905 -- Chapter 15: The Peasant Question after 1905 (continued) -- Part 3: The Development of Political Liberty, 1856-1914 -- Chapter 16: The History of Political Liberalism in the Reign of Alexander II -- Chapter 17: The Period from 1881 to 1902 -- Chapter 18: The Liberation Movement -- Chapter 19: Liberalism in 1904 -- Chapter 20: The Zemstvo Congresses -- Chapter 21: Further Zemstvo Congresses and the Aggravation of the Revolutionary Situation -- Chapter 22: The Manifesto of October 17, 1905, and the Constitution of April 23, 1906 -- Chapter 23: Witte and Public Opinion -- Chapter 24: The Constitutional-Democratic Party and the Union of October 17 -- Chapter 25: The First Duma -- Chapter 26: The Second Duma -- Chapter 27: The Coup of June 3, 1907, and the Third and Fourth Dumas -- Notes -- Index of Names.