Edward E. Ericson, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of English at Calvin College. He is the author of Solzhenitsyn and the Modern World, and he also served as the editor of the abridged, single-volume version of The Gulag Archipelego, which was authorised by Solzhenitsyn. Alexis Klimoff has taught Russian language, literature and culture at Vasser College since 1971. He is the co-editor of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Critical Essays and Documentary Materials and the editor of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Critical Companion.
"I welcome the appearance in print of the Reader, and especially of those selections previously inaccessible to English-language readers. It serves the demand of the modern age for capsule form, yet preserves the integrity of the texts." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) "A fine antidote to such simple-minded pigeonholing of Solzhenitsyn - as the brave anti-communist who later went off the deep end - is, as the author suggested, to read his work, particularly his later writings, which are not remotely as one-note as shibboleths about him suggest...[c]ompiled with the cooperation of both Solzhenitsyn and his three sons, it provides a far more textured picture of the writer as an unrelenting artist...a flexible and theologically minded philosopher;...an often daring stylist; and a political and nationalist 'ideologue' only in the eyes of predisposed critics." - Philadelphia Inquirer "[A] superb volume with a terrific introduction that places Solzhenitsyn's life and thought in clear context." - John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times"
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