Willetts, H. T.

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn ( Book )
20 editions published between 1990 and 2010 in English and Russian and held by 1,477 libraries worldwide
One of the most chilling novels ever written about the oppression of totalitarian regimes--and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps, this book allowed Solzhenitsyn, who later became Russia's conscience in exile, to challenge the brutal might of the Soviet Union.

November 1916 by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn ( Book )
3 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 1,215 libraries worldwide
A novel on the 1917 Russian Revolution, chronicling the events which led up to it. The protagonists are its participants--from peasant to tsar. Part two of a multi-volume epic which began with August 1914.

1920 Diary by I Babelʹ ( Book )
4 editions published between 1995 and 2002 in English and held by 810 libraries worldwide
The Russian writer Isaac Babel (1894-1940) is widely acknowledged to be one of the great masters of twentieth-century literature, hailed as a genius by such critics as Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe. The work for which he is best known is a cycle of stories called Red Cavalry, which depicts the exploits of the Cossack cavalry during the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920 and is based on Babel's experiences as he rode with the Cossacks during the campaign. Throughout this period Babel kept a diary, in which he recorded the devastation of the war, the extreme cruelty of the Polish and Red armies alike toward the Jewish population in Ukraine and eastern Poland, and his own conflicted role as both Soviet revolutionary and Jew. The 1920 Diary, a vital source for Red Cavalry as well as a compelling narrative, is now published in English for the first time.

In the first circle : a novel, the restored text by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn ( Book )
3 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 720 libraries worldwide
Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state -- or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps and almost certain death. --from publisher description.

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 : an experiment in literary investigation by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn ( Book )
18 editions published between 1978 and 2007 in English and held by 466 libraries worldwide
Drawing on his own experiences before, during, and after his 11 years of incarceration and exile, Solzhenitsyn reveals with torrential narrative and dramatic power the entire apparatus of Soviet repression. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims, we encounter the secret police operations, the labor camps and prisons, the uprooting or extermination of whole populations. Yet we also witness astounding moral courage, the incorruptibility with which the occasional individual or a few scattered groups, all defenseless, endured brutality and degradation. Solzhenitsyn's genius has transmuted this grisly indictment into a literary miracle.

A history of world communism by F. W Deakin ( Book )
8 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 419 libraries worldwide

Bread of exile : a Russian family by Dimitri Obolensky ( Book )
1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 196 libraries worldwide

The red wheel : a narrative in discrete period of time by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn ( Book )
5 editions published between 1988 and 2008 in English and held by 111 libraries worldwide
Set at the outbreak of the First World War, this novel explores the responsibility for Russia's defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg.

Lenin in Zürich : chapters by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn ( Book )
7 editions published between 1975 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 44 libraries worldwide

The red wheel : a narrative in discrete periods of time by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn ( Book )
3 editions published between 1989 and 1999 in English and held by 5 libraries worldwide