This book presents, for the first time in English, files kept by the Soviet leadership on the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The documents collected here originated at the highest levels of Soviet Communism - the Politburo, the KGB, the Foreign Ministry, the Secretariat of the Central Committee. Arranged in strictly chronological order, they tell the story of an epic hero from the point of view of his antagonists.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1963-1969 Early Struggle -- 1970-1971 Nobel Prize -- 1972-1973 Approaching Crisis -- 1974 Expulsion -- 1975-1980 Exile.