"This outstanding new translation of The Calf Who Butted the Oak at last gives English-language readers the opportunity to share in Solzhenitsyn’s uniquely piercing assessment of what the post-Stalin period was, and what it was not." —Matthew Rojansky, president of the U.S. Russia Foundation and chairman of the Kennan Institute

"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a true giant of the twentieth century in terms of both his literary and historical importance. Seldom has a writer wielded so much power in the fight against tyranny and terror." —Joseph Pearce, author of Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile

"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn shaped the destiny of his country more deeply than any other writer in the twentieth century. The Calf Who Butted the Oak, his vivid memoir of his final, tumultuous decade in the Soviet Union, captures its author’s unshakable courage and supreme self-confidence." —Benjamin Nathans, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause

"The prose of great writers is distinguished by a special relationship with reality. Their texts seem more real than life, while their lives take on the traits of legend. Such is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn." —Eugene Vodolazkin, author of Laurus

"There are few stories in all history, real or fictional, to match the courage and heroism of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Calf Who Butted the Oak is a prophetic call to our generation before it is too late." —Os Guinness, author of Zero Hour America

"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn never expected his words to be published in his lifetime. Happily for us they were, and this authoritative edition of The Calf Who Butted The Oak reminds us that his wisdom stands to benefit us all for many lifetimes to come." —Michael Knowles, author and host of The Michael Knowles Show

"For fifty years we have read The Oak and the Calf as the story of one man's defiance. Only a son could have restored it to what his father meant it to be: with the 'Invisibles' finally in their rightful place, the book becomes the story of the typists, couriers, and keepers of manuscripts—so many of them women, so many unnamed until now—without whom The Gulag Archipelago would have died in a drawer." —Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, author of Hannah's Children