Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Nobel Prize laureate in literature, was a Soviet political prisoner from 1945 to 1953. His story One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) made him famous, and The Gulag Archipelago (1973) further unmasked Communism and played a critical role in its eventual defeat. Solzhenitsyn was exiled to the West in 1974. He ultimately published dozens of plays, poems, novels, and works of history, nonfiction, and memoir, including In the First Circle, Cancer Ward, The Oak and the Calf, and Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2018).

Clare Kitson is a Russian literary translator. She has also translated part of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic cycle, The Red Wheel.

Melanie Moore is a Russian and French translator, and she has produced a number of Russian literary translations.

Daniel J. Mahoney holds the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption College.

Publisher's Note

Foreword to Book 2

PART TWO (1978-1982)

6. Russian Pain

7. A Creeping Host

8. More Headaches

PART THREE (1982-1987)

9. Around Three Islands

10. Drawing Inward

11. Ordeal by Tawdriness

12. Alarm in the Senate

13. Warm Breeze

PART FOUR (1987-1994)

14. Through the Brambles

15. Ideas Spurned

16. Nearing the Return

APPENDICES

List of Appendices

Appendices (25-36)

Notes to the English Translation

Index of Selected Names

General Index