What is the publishing schedule for the third and fourth knots of “The Red Wheel” in english?

Aleksandr is and will remain a cultural icon for his contribution in describing in the most electic way how the communist prison system operated and strived to punish humans in order to rehabilitate their minds if not to annihilate them altogether from the new soviet dictatorship of fear.

However, I have a small critique that I have to make about comments the author made in the few spare US media interviews. This has to do with religion or the russian orthodox church. In one of this comments he claimed that religion is the foundation of all what the Russia was, is and should be. That religion was lost and that russians should go back to it to regain their dignity and sense of self, demeaning the historical Russian humanist and secular tradition in literature, the arts and sciences that Russia had struggled for prior to the Communist revolution. Such comments rung bells of happiness and ideological fervor among US televangilists including to former US president Ronald Reagan and the religous right. I am not an expert in Russian religious tradition however I found his claims a bit surprising. Religion was also used by the Tsarist Russia to subdue people and to perpetuate class distinctions and begin brutal pograms against non-eastern orthodox faiths.

Recently the reknown film maker Alexander Sukorov released his documentory tapes recordings on DVD of interviews with the author while he was in Vermont and when he was begining to take steps to return to Russia in early 1990’s. The discussions between the filmaker and the author did not amount to much, the author did not want to elaborate very much on some of the issue related to literature, the arts and human nature more importantly when it comes to the experiences of sufferings and evil perpetuated by poeple against other people. He seemed reserved and quite uncomfortable with the interviews. The newer idea Solzhenitsyn started to expound during the interviews with Sukorov was the idea of nature and the environment of Russian landscapes and how they shape Russian identity. All this was captured when both were taking walks in nature preserves near the author’s homes.