Tag: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A Yiddish election poster from Ukraine in 1917 which reads, in Yiddish, “Vote for the United Jewish Socialist Workers’ Party.”

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Introduction

When approaching the Jewish Question, a beginner should keep in mind that the ultimate goal of his investigation should be the normalization of the white and Jewish populations. Normalization, in this case, means a state of affairs in which one population does not take undue advantage of the other. A utopian goal, perhaps, but one that would most likely reap tangible rewards the closer both populations come to achieving it.

How are white-Jewish relations today not normalized? If you ask Jonathan Greenblatt or any other spokesmen of diaspora Jewish interests, they would tell you that relations today are normalized. (more…)

Pjotr Arkaďjevič Stolypin

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Vysoký muž  se nesl s  hrdostí, pohledný, sebevědomý ve svém dobře padnoucím lehkém bílém redingotu. Přestože působil málem královsky, car to nebyl – byť jako premiér k tomu neměl úplně daleko. (more…)

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Jim Goad was host Nick Jeelvy‘s very special guest on the Juneteenth broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where Jim regaled us with tales of African contributions to the United States as we celebrated this most auspicious holiday called Juneteenth. (more…)

Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife shortly before their televised execution on December 25, 1989.

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“A regime built on lies always ends in collapse.” — Z-Man, “An Empire of Lies”

Solipsism: a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing. (more…)

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Historically, when an authoritarian regime takes power, the written law tends to cease to be representative of real-life interaction with the state. (more…)

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Spencer J. Quinn
Solzhenitsyn & the Right
Quakertown, Pa.: Antelope Hill

The widespread perception of Solzhenitsyn as a figure inseparable from the vanished world of the Cold War has become an obstacle to appreciation of his works. To some extent, an earlier generation of his Western admirers contributed to this misunderstanding: e.g., many Cold War conservatives were dead set against any discussion of race, which would make it impossible to apply any of Solzhenitsyn’s insights to our struggle against today’s racially-obsessed Left. (more…)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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This is an audio recording of Spencer J. Quinn’s six-part review of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s monumental work Two Hundred Years Together, a history of the Jews broadly in Russia and specifically as part of the Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union. We would like to thank Gaddius Maximus for this reading. (more…)

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Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here

Much of the tremendous value of Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together rests in how it was written completely without rancor. Only a highly cynical or unreasonable person could call it anti-Semitic — that is, a work that professes animosity or anger towards Jews as a people. (more…)

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Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here

Large numbers of Jews who did not leave after the revolution failed to foresee the bloodthirstiness of the new government, though the persecution, even of socialists, was well underway. The Soviet government was as unjust and cruel then as it was to be in 1937 and 1950. But in the Twenties the bloodlust did not raise alarm or resistance in the wider Jewish population since its force was aimed not at Jewry. (more…)

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By the time the reader begins the second volume of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together, he’s aware of a complex yet fragile balance established by the author in volume one. Jews and Russians have shared the same empire and language for centuries, but not without conflict brought about by their different natures and the exigencies of history. (more…)

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Chapter Ten: The Period of the Duma

Despite including little by way of terrorism or atrocity, chapter ten is one of the most revealing and fascinating chapters in all of Two Hundred Years Together. (more…)

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Two Hundred Years Together
Moscow: Vagrius, 2005

No sane person wants to lie. Aside from whatever harm lying might cause, lying also chips away at a person’s dignity. (more…)