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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn et al.
From Under the Rubble
Boston: Little, Brown & Company (1975)

Shortly before being deported from the Soviet Union in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn contributed three essays to a volume that was later published in the West as From Under the Rubble. Read more …

Published: January 18, 2021 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Andrei Sakharov, anti-Bolshevism, anti-Communism, anti-white double standards, articles, book reviews, capitalism, decadence, dissidence, ethnonationalism, From Under the Rubble, globalism, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, parliamentary democracy, Russia, socialism, Spencer J. Quinn, Stalinism, the left, the Soviet Union, totalitarianism | 7 Responses

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Benjamin Ginsburg’s How the Jews Defeated Hitler

Spencer J. Quinn

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Benjamin Ginsburg
How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013

Benjamin Ginsburg has his uses for the Dissident Right. As a Jewish author who sometimes airs dirty Jewish laundry for his readers, he can be placed in the same category as David Cole — Jews who offer critical assessments of their own people that justify the claims of anti-Semites, Read more …

Published: September 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Benjamin Ginsburg, book reviews, Jews in America, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question, World War II | 17 Responses

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Stolypin vs. Bogrov:
Themes of Ethnonationalism in Solzhenitsyn’s August 1914

Spencer J. Quinn

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The white man stood tall and proud. He was handsome and confident, and was well-dressed in his white summer-weight frock coat. Regal, although not quite the Tsar. As Prime Minister, he was the next best thing. Despite this, Pyotr Stolypin had remarkable little security around him when he attended a play at the Kyiv Opera House on September 14th, 1911. His relationship with the Tsar had soured a bit recently due to his insistence that the local governments of the western provinces (called zemstvos) be dominated by the Russian people and not the influential Polish landowners. Read more …

Published: September 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, August 1914, Bolshevik Revolution, book reviews, Communism, identity, Jews in Russia, Mordecai Bogrov, North American New Right, originals, Pyotr Stolypin, Russia, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question | 2 Responses

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The Prison Plays of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Spencer J. Quinn

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Known mostly as a novelist, memoirist, and historian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had actually completed four plays before his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, was published in 1962. He composed his first two, Victory Celebrations and Prisoners, while a zek in the Soviet Gulag Read more …

Published: August 5, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conservatism, corruption, dissidence, gulags, honor, idealism, identity, ideology, Jews in literature, life, love, loyalty, North American New Right, originals, play reviews, plays, radicalism, romance, Russia, Russian literature, Soviet Union, Spencer J. Quinn, the Jewish question, truth | 1 Response

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March 1917 in June 2020

Spencer J. Quinn

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A recurring theme in Book 1 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s March 1917 — or Node III of his vast Red Wheel opus — is “this could have been prevented.” Of course, this refers to the first successful socialist revolution in Russia, which took place in March 1917 (or in February, according to the Julian Calendar). In March 1917, Solzhenitsyn offers a wealth of perspective on the fateful events in Petrograd which led to the abdication of the Tsar and the monarchy’s ultimate replacement with the Provisional Government. Read more …

Published: June 26, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 American riots, articles, authority, Black Lives Matter, Blacks in America, Bolshevik Revolution, book reviews, Communism, Donald Trump, fake news, Jews in America, Marxism, North American New Right, originals, police, revolution, riots, Russia, Spencer J. Quinn, violence | 12 Responses

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Lenin in Zürich

Spencer J. Quinn

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In 1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn excised the several Lenin chapters from his massive and unfinished Red Wheel epic and compiled them into one volume entitled Lenin in Zürich. At the time, only one of these chapters had been published — in Knot I of the Red Wheel, known as August 1914 — while the remaining chapters would still have to languish in the author’s desk drawer for decades before appearing as part of The Red Wheel proper (November 1916 and March 1917, specifically). Read more …

Published: May 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Communism, North American New Right, originals, socialism, sociopathy, Spencer J. Quinn, Switzerland, Vladimir Lenin | 11 Responses

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On Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West

Spencer J. Quinn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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And all of us are standing on the brink of a great historical cataclysm, a flood that swallows up civilization and changes whole epochs.
–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, BBC speech, March 24, 1976

In the summer of 1975, the recently-exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered three speeches in the United States: two to labor organizations and one to Congress. The following year, he was interviewed by the BBC and then delivered a speech over British radio. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Communism, articles, Cold War, Communism, North American New Right, originals, Soviet Union, Spencer J. Quinn, the left | 7 Responses

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“Matryona’s House”:
Solzhenitsyn’s Love Letter to the Russian People

Spencer J. Quinn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn seemed to write novels like a historian. It’s as if he didn’t always know which details were more important than others, and so erred on the side of quantity rather than quality. Not that his novels don’t contain great stuff – rather, they tend to lead the reader through long and uneven passages in between the moments of greatness. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, North American New Right, originals, Russia, Spencer J. Quinn | 9 Responses

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Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards:
Revisiting Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address

Spencer J. Quinn

Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, 1978

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s address at Harvard in June 1978 (video here), which was initially entitled “The Exhausted West” before being renamed “A World Split Apart” when it was published in book form, caused quite a stir among the Americans. Read more …

Published: June 21, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, freedom, human rights, humanism, materialism, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the United States, white guilt | 11 Responses

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
The Rise of a Prophet

Spencer J. Quinn

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It’s striking how cherry-picking can hone the pen of a propagandist and disguise malice behind a veneer of reason. Jewish writer Cathy Young provides excellent examples of this all throughout her December 2018 Quillette article, “Solzhenitsyn: The Fall of a Prophet.” Published shortly after Solzhenitsyn’s 100th birthday, the article’s point, essentially, is to tarnish the reputation of a great man in order to steer discourse away from aspects of his work which the current zeitgeist finds problematic. Read more …

Published: February 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, North American New Right, originals, Russia, Spencer J. Quinn | 13 Responses

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Letter to the Z Man

Spencer J. Quinn

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Dear Z Man,

Like most of your articles, I thought your “Letter to the Antisemites” from March 11 was perfectly reasonable and well-put, yet I believe it missed a few crucial points. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, evolutionary psychology, Jews, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Z Man | 13 Responses

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The Soviet Gulag

Jonathan Bowden

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The following text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s New Right lecture of February 4, 2012. I want to thank Michèle Renouf for making the recording available. Read more …

Published: October 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Jonathan Bowden, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Russia, the gulag, totalitarianism, Ukraine, USSR, V. I. Lenin | 8 Responses

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Solzhenitsyn on the Jews & Tsarist Russia

F. Roger Devlin

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Deux siècles ensemble
Volume 1: Juifs et Russes avant la révolution
Paris: Fayard, 2002

It appears now that the English-speaking world will have to wait some time yet for a translation of Two Hundred Years Together, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s two volume study of Russian-Jewish relations. Translations into both French and German have been available for five years, and Italian, Hungarian, Greek, Czech, and Latvian editions are in the works. Read more …