Foreword Chapter 1 An Anguished' Love of Country: Solzhenitsyn's Paradoxical Middle Path The Ideological Deformation of Reality Recovering Truth and Memory A False Consensus A "Lucid" Love of Country An Exacting Patriotism A War on Two Fronts A New Mission Self-Inflicted Wounds The Pathologies of the Russian Right Orthodox Universalism: The Other Extreme The Question of Tone A Theorist of Self-Government Beyond Tired Polemics Chapter 2 "The Active Struggle Against Evil": Reflections on a Theme in Solzhenitsyn Vorotyntsev and Stolypin A Pusillanimous Monarch Moral Freedom and Political Liberty The Soul of Man Under Socialism The Camp Revolts Resisting Evil With Force Chapter 3 Nicholas II and the Coming of Revolution Conclusion Chapter 4 The Artist as Thinker: Reflections In the First Circle The Three Pillars The Two Versions "But We Are Only Given One Conscience, Too" A Crucial Encounter The Decisive Metanoia Beyond Fanaticism and Skepticism The Remarkable Continuities of Sotzhenitsyn's Reflection Chapter 5 A Phenomenology of Ideological Despotism: Reflections on Solzhenitsyn's "Our Muzzled Freedom" An Introduction: Theorizing Totalitarianism The Soul and Barbed Wire "Free Life" in a Totalitarian Regime Constant Fear Secrecy and Mistrust Complicity in the Web of Repression Betrayal as a Form of Existence Corruption versus Nobility The Lie as a Form of Existence Class Cruelty Slave Psychology Conclusion: Remembering Everything Chapter 6 Two Critics of the Ideological "Lie": Raymond Aron's Encounter with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Letter to the Soviet Leaders A Parisian Encounter Solzhenitsyn and Sartre Misconceptions About Russia Two Spiritual Families? Chapter 7 Solzhenitsyn, Russia, and the Jews Revisited From Belligerence to Understanding Rejecting the Temptation to Blame Renegades and Revolutionaries The Fortunes of Soviet Jewry 131 Repentance and Responsibility Solzhenitsyn's Moral Challenge The Holocaust Solzhenitsyn's Non Possum Chapter 8 The Binary Tales: The Soul of Man in the Soviet -and Russian-Twentieth Century Chapter 9 Freedom, Faith and the Moral Foundations of Self-Government: Solzhenitsyn's Final Word to Russia and the West A Life Rooted in Conscience A State Prize The Prospects for Repentance An Archival Revolution Two Revolutions Two Hundred Years Together Learning About the Past Three Leaders Building Democracy From the Bottom Up A Meaningful Opposition Parties and Popular Representation Making Room for Small Businesses A "National Idea"? Russia and the West The Future of Russian Literature The Church in Russia Today A Man of Faith and Reason Three Prayers An Encounter With the Polish Pope 1 Orthodoxy and the Neo-Pagan Temptation A Calm and Balanced Attitude Toward Death Notes Appendix 1 "Really Existing Socialism" and the Archival Revolution Wooden Words Red Holocaust Black Book Gulag Memoirs Testaments to Violence and Lies History and the Totalitarian Temptation Appendix 2 Introduction: Returning to 'The Gulag' The Gift of Incarnation Index.