Richard Tempest is an associate professor at the University of Illinois who studies the interactions between Russian and Western culture. His novel Zolotaya kost, about the adventures of a time-traveling American professor, was published in Moscow in 2004. Tempest's current research focuses on charismatic politics in the twenty-first century.

Acknowledgments
A Note on Translations and
Transliterations
Preface
Timeline of Solzhenitsyn's
Life and Works

Part
One: The Writer In Situ

1. The Quilted Jerkin:
Solzhenitsyn's Life and Art
2. Ice, Squared: "One Day in
the Life of Ivan Denisovich"
3. "Turgenev Never Knew": The
Shorter Fictions of the 1950s and 1960s
4. Meteor Man: Love the Revolution
5. Helots and Heroes: In the First Circle
6. Rebel versus Rabble: Cancer Ward

Part
Two: The Writer Ex Situ

7. Twilight of All the
Russias: The Red Wheel
8. Return: The Shorter
Fictions of the 1990s
9: Modernist?

Appendix. Three Interviews
with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2003-7)

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index