In this new paperback edition of Assault on Ideology: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Political Thought author James F. Pontuso showcases the titanic thought that understood Marxism to be a vain and ultimately merciless effort to fulfill the Enlightenment dream of fully conquering and exploiting nature in order to establish a perfect and just society on earth.

James F. Pontuso is Elliot Professor of Political Science at Hampden-Sydney College.

Chapter 1 A Chronicle of Terror Chapter 2 Solzhenitsyn's Stalin Chapter 3 Solzhenitsyn's Lenin Chapter 4 Solzhenitsyn's Marx Chapter 5 The Consequences of Marxism in the Soviet Union and Elsewhere Chapter 6 Solzhenitsyn on the West Chapter 7 On a Revival of the Spirit