Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobel Lecture | 1971 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 2 | Letter to the Soviet Leaders | 1974 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 3 | The Oak And The Calf: Sketches Of Literary Life In The Soviet Union | 1975 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 4 | From Under the Rubble | 1975 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 5 | Détente, Democracy and Dictatorship | 1976 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 6 | Warning to the West | 1976 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 7 | A World Split Apart: Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978 | 1978 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 8 | Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals | 1990 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 9 | The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century | 1994 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 10 | Invisible Allies | 1995 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 11 | Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978 | 2006 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 12 | Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978-1994 | 2020 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
| 13 | The Gulag Archipelago: Complete Edition | 2021 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Buy |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a prolific essayist and memoirist alongside his fiction. His Nobel Lecture (1971) laid out his views on the moral role of literature. Letter to the Soviet Leaders (1974) urged the Soviet government to abandon Marxist ideology, and Warning to the West (1976) collected his speeches to Western audiences after his expulsion from the Soviet Union. His 1978 Harvard commencement address, A World Split Apart, criticized both Soviet tyranny and what he saw as Western spiritual decline.
The Oak and the Calf (1975) is a memoir of his years as a dissident writer inside the Soviet Union, describing the cat-and-mouse game of smuggling manuscripts and dealing with the censors. Between Two Millstones, published in two volumes, covers his years of exile in the West from 1974 to 1994. Later works like Rebuilding Russia (1990) and The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century (1994) grappled with what Russia should become after the fall of communism.