Order of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Books
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist and one of the most famous Soviet dissidents of all-time. Solzhenitsyn was a critic of communism and raised awareness of the political repression that took place in the USSR in his time. In 1970, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature.
Solzhenitsyn was a captain the Red Army during World War II before being arrested by the SMERSH for a private letter in which he criticized Joseph Stalin. He was sentenced to eight years in the Gulag for the crime and then internal exile. He was eventually released and exonerated after the Khrushchev Thaw, which lead to him pursuing writing. He published his first novel in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. When Khrushchev was removed from power, he was encouraged to stop writing, but he did not. He published The Gulag Archipelago in 1973 which outraged the Soviets and lead to him losing his citizenship.
Publication Order of The Red Wheel Books
| August 1914 | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| November 1916 | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Books
| The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 3 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 1 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 2 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Volume 3 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| For The Good Of The Cause | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cancer Ward | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the First Circle | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lenin in Zürich | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Plays
| The Love-Girl and The Innocent: A Play | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Victory Celebrations: A Comedy in Four Acts | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| Candle in the Wind | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Matryona's House and Other Stories | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stories and Prose Poems | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Victory Celebrations, Prisoners & The Love-Girl & The Innocent | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Prussian Nights: A Poem | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| We Never Make Mistakes | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Apricot Jam: And Other Stories | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Voices from the Gulag | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Nobel Lecture | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letter to the Soviet Leaders | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Oak And The Calf: Sketches Of Literary Life In The Soviet Union | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| From Under the Rubble | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Détente, Democracy and Dictatorship | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Warning to the West | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A World Split Apart: Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978 | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Invisible Allies | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Gulag Archipelago: Complete Edition | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Kontinent: The Alternative Voice of Russia & Eastern Europe, 1 | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Books, You’ll Love…
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation is Solzhenitsyn’s own account of his arrest and interrogation by the Soviets. The book exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that existed within Soviet society. The book was called the best nonfiction book of the twentieth century and is credited with changing history.
Matryona’s Place is a novel about a former Gulag prisoner and teacher who moves back to the Russian provinces where he grew up. He ends up taking a job at a school on a collective farm at Matryona’s place. The two share a single room where they eat and sleep, and he finds little difference between life out here and that of the pre-revolutionary landlords and their serfs.