
First Circle
At the height of Stalin''s postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn''s basic theme: the individual''s experience of acquiring an immortal soul.
Unwisely but generously, Innokenty helps a friend in danger of arrest, o...
At the height of Stalin''s postwar terror, Innokenty, a young diplomat and scion of a corrupt ruling class, discovers an earlier and more spiritual tradition than that adopted by the October Revolution, the beginning of a process which is Solzhenitsyn''s basic theme: the individual''s experience of acquiring an immortal soul.
Unwisely but generously, Innokenty helps a friend in danger of arrest, o...