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Двести лет вместе: Часть 1. В Дореволюционной России
В 26 томе Собрания сочинений публикуется первая часть исследования «Двести лет вместе (1795—1995)» (впервые: М.: Русский мир, 2001), посвященная русско-еврейским отношениям «в дореволюционной России». Автор характеризует и анализирует менявшееся положение евреев в Российской империи, выделяя особо важные исторические моменты (эпоха Великих реформ, первая русская революция, Первая мировая война). В поле зрения Солженицына входят политика верховной власти, отношение к евреям русской общественности, роль евреев в развитии капитализма, их участие в революционном движении, начало и распространение сионизма в России, трагедия погромов, борьба за отмену черты оседлости и дру
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Published May 12, 2015
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
288 books4,120 followersalso known as
Alexander Solzenitsyn (English, alternate)
Αλεξάντρ Σολζενίτσιν (Greek)
Works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), of Soviet writer and dissident Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, exposed the brutality of the labor camp system.
This known Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian best helped to make the world aware of the forced Gulag.
Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn fathered of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksan...
Alexander Solzenitsyn (English, alternate)
Αλεξάντρ Σολζενίτσιν (Greek)
Works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), of Soviet writer and dissident Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, exposed the brutality of the labor camp system.
This known Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian best helped to make the world aware of the forced Gulag.
Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn fathered of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksan...
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December 19, 2024
For everyone whose head is not buried in the sand, "the Jewish Question" is now being forced into the forefront in the US, as it has in almost every civilized country over the past 2000 years, but nowhere as significantly as in Russia (Germany was merely epilogue), where over 50 percent of the world's Jews lived near the turn of the 20th century.
Lines are being drawn in the sand, with accusations of anti-semitism being hurled on one side, and the other side claiming persecution for "the crime of noticing."
If Belloc was correct (and I think he was), the only hope of breaking the repeated pattern is light: honest discussion of the issues with transparency of interests on both sides. This advice was not heeded by Europe when Belloc wrote his book in the interwar period, and disaster resulted. Let us heed his advice today.
Solzhenitsyn is respected worldwide, so far as I know, so his account of the last 200 years of Russo-Jewish history bears reading.
It's a very detailed, dispassionate telling and takes us up through the Bolshevik revolution, which will be told in Volume II.
I was looking for a bit less detailed history and a bit more analysis, or I'd have given it a fourth star. Very good, though, for being all that it attempts to be. And frankly, it probably serves as merely an intro to the Russian revolution, where these two peoples' histories clash so violently. I am looking forward to volume II.
Lines are being drawn in the sand, with accusations of anti-semitism being hurled on one side, and the other side claiming persecution for "the crime of noticing."
If Belloc was correct (and I think he was), the only hope of breaking the repeated pattern is light: honest discussion of the issues with transparency of interests on both sides. This advice was not heeded by Europe when Belloc wrote his book in the interwar period, and disaster resulted. Let us heed his advice today.
Solzhenitsyn is respected worldwide, so far as I know, so his account of the last 200 years of Russo-Jewish history bears reading.
It's a very detailed, dispassionate telling and takes us up through the Bolshevik revolution, which will be told in Volume II.
I was looking for a bit less detailed history and a bit more analysis, or I'd have given it a fourth star. Very good, though, for being all that it attempts to be. And frankly, it probably serves as merely an intro to the Russian revolution, where these two peoples' histories clash so violently. I am looking forward to volume II.
January 7, 2025
Won’t find this in any school system. Wonder why?
July 24, 2025
He tried to charitable and offer reasoning for the behavior of the Jewish people as a collective, but the evidence provided only solidifies their guilt and intolerable behavior. The patience and suffering of the Russian people as they tried to co-exist cannot be overstated. The ingratitude and cruelty of the Jewish people is beyond comparison.
February 9, 2026
To understand the Jews in the modern West, you must understand their history in Russia.
Solzhenitsyn's last book is a history of the Jews in Russia. Although the first chapter goes back into the mists of history, the first appearance of Jews in Russia during the first millennium A.D., his focus is on the 19th and 20th centuries.
This is a long book, and an extremely well researched one. Solzhenitsyn made extensive use of original Jewish sources and invested a great deal of time in the book. Nonetheless, he was constrained by his time and place. To give one example, he believes that Russian Jews originated from the Khazar peoples of the Caucasus region. His thesis is that they adopted the Jewish religion about the same time that Prince of Kyiv adopted Christianity. Genomic research, not available in Solzhenitsyn's time, tends to support the Middle Eastern origins of the Ashkenazi Jews of Russia.
There are conspiracy theories surrounding the fact that this book has not been translated into English. Could it be that certain interests that control the publishing industry did not want it to happen? I am not so sure. It has been translated into French, which makes it more available to Western readers. That translation, published by Fayard, it is easily downloaded in PDF format from the Internet. Moreover, much of the book is likewise available in English in PDF format via the Internet. It may be that there is simply no need for a more comprehensive, higher quality work.
Russian, French or English, it is a rather dense and difficult book in any case. I would recommend that the English reader be content with what there is, knowing that the chapters not available in English go into a lot of detail that is not necessary for a decent overview.
Many other books cover the same topic, albeit from different angles. Touching on Russian Jewry, I have reviewed and recommend The Jewish Century, [[ASIN:0245527850 Revolutionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky]], [[ASIN:B004E0Z3VI The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho]], [[ASIN:0759672229 The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements]], [[ASIN:B00HPBZZCA Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism]], [[ASIN:0595228380 A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples]].
Summing up Solzhenitsyn's theme, the Jews were a very separate people through the end of the 18th century, living among the Russian people but not being of them. They distinguished themselves in their speech, dress, habits and occupations. The Romanoff czars attempted to better integrate them into Russian life, often with perverse and comical outcomes. The Jews are clever people and did not want to be manipulated.
The Russians tried to get them to stop making alcohol. It made the ordinary Russians drunk, and put them in debt to the Jews. This attempt was made on many separate occasions, and it generally failed.
The Russians attempted to bring Jews into the Army. Jews were extremely clever at finding mechanisms to avoid military service – except when it suited them. Once the Jews were admitted to universities, giving them a path to officer positions in the Army, things change.
The Russians attempted to make farmers out of the Jews, giving them incentives to settle "New Russia," southern Ukraine in the Crimea and Odessa regions. They gave the Jews land and attempted to set them up with farming implements. Generally, however, it was a major failure. The Jews accepted the largesse but did not become farmers. They retained their traditional way of life, as merchants, landlords and distillers.
The Russians tried to keep them out of Moscow, defining a "Pale of Settlement" that kept them mostly west of the Dnieper and in Poland. Russians were inconsistent in enforcing the restrictions, and Jews clever in circumventing them, all the while loudly complaining about persecution.
Jewish culture had long celebrated the intellect, through intense discussion of the holy documents, a requirement for literacy and a vast number of oral traditions. Russian efforts to integrate the Jews into Russian society had the effect of focusing this intellect on themes of interest to the whole society. Sometimes the results were salubrious. For one example, an entire generation of Jewish children became enchanted with Pushkin, Turgenev and the other classic Russian writers.
At other times the restless Jewish intellect sought problems to solve. As Solzhenitsyn, Wistrich and Slezkine write, each generation became passionately absorbed with a new set of issues. Socialism, anarchy, Zionism, and Communism each had its turn. Jews, bright as they were, turned up at the forefront of each. So it has been also in the United States. The NAACP, American Civil Liberties Union, gay rights, feminism, transgender rights, militant atheism – the "war on Christmas", literary deconstructionism and many other movements have been led by Jews. Inasmuch as two centuries ago half of all Jewry, the smarter half at that, lived in the Russian Empire, what Solzhenitsyn has to say is very relevant today.
Solzhenitsyn's last book is a history of the Jews in Russia. Although the first chapter goes back into the mists of history, the first appearance of Jews in Russia during the first millennium A.D., his focus is on the 19th and 20th centuries.
This is a long book, and an extremely well researched one. Solzhenitsyn made extensive use of original Jewish sources and invested a great deal of time in the book. Nonetheless, he was constrained by his time and place. To give one example, he believes that Russian Jews originated from the Khazar peoples of the Caucasus region. His thesis is that they adopted the Jewish religion about the same time that Prince of Kyiv adopted Christianity. Genomic research, not available in Solzhenitsyn's time, tends to support the Middle Eastern origins of the Ashkenazi Jews of Russia.
There are conspiracy theories surrounding the fact that this book has not been translated into English. Could it be that certain interests that control the publishing industry did not want it to happen? I am not so sure. It has been translated into French, which makes it more available to Western readers. That translation, published by Fayard, it is easily downloaded in PDF format from the Internet. Moreover, much of the book is likewise available in English in PDF format via the Internet. It may be that there is simply no need for a more comprehensive, higher quality work.
Russian, French or English, it is a rather dense and difficult book in any case. I would recommend that the English reader be content with what there is, knowing that the chapters not available in English go into a lot of detail that is not necessary for a decent overview.
Many other books cover the same topic, albeit from different angles. Touching on Russian Jewry, I have reviewed and recommend The Jewish Century, [[ASIN:0245527850 Revolutionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky]], [[ASIN:B004E0Z3VI The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho]], [[ASIN:0759672229 The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements]], [[ASIN:B00HPBZZCA Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism]], [[ASIN:0595228380 A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy, with Diaspora Peoples]].
Summing up Solzhenitsyn's theme, the Jews were a very separate people through the end of the 18th century, living among the Russian people but not being of them. They distinguished themselves in their speech, dress, habits and occupations. The Romanoff czars attempted to better integrate them into Russian life, often with perverse and comical outcomes. The Jews are clever people and did not want to be manipulated.
The Russians tried to get them to stop making alcohol. It made the ordinary Russians drunk, and put them in debt to the Jews. This attempt was made on many separate occasions, and it generally failed.
The Russians attempted to bring Jews into the Army. Jews were extremely clever at finding mechanisms to avoid military service – except when it suited them. Once the Jews were admitted to universities, giving them a path to officer positions in the Army, things change.
The Russians attempted to make farmers out of the Jews, giving them incentives to settle "New Russia," southern Ukraine in the Crimea and Odessa regions. They gave the Jews land and attempted to set them up with farming implements. Generally, however, it was a major failure. The Jews accepted the largesse but did not become farmers. They retained their traditional way of life, as merchants, landlords and distillers.
The Russians tried to keep them out of Moscow, defining a "Pale of Settlement" that kept them mostly west of the Dnieper and in Poland. Russians were inconsistent in enforcing the restrictions, and Jews clever in circumventing them, all the while loudly complaining about persecution.
Jewish culture had long celebrated the intellect, through intense discussion of the holy documents, a requirement for literacy and a vast number of oral traditions. Russian efforts to integrate the Jews into Russian society had the effect of focusing this intellect on themes of interest to the whole society. Sometimes the results were salubrious. For one example, an entire generation of Jewish children became enchanted with Pushkin, Turgenev and the other classic Russian writers.
At other times the restless Jewish intellect sought problems to solve. As Solzhenitsyn, Wistrich and Slezkine write, each generation became passionately absorbed with a new set of issues. Socialism, anarchy, Zionism, and Communism each had its turn. Jews, bright as they were, turned up at the forefront of each. So it has been also in the United States. The NAACP, American Civil Liberties Union, gay rights, feminism, transgender rights, militant atheism – the "war on Christmas", literary deconstructionism and many other movements have been led by Jews. Inasmuch as two centuries ago half of all Jewry, the smarter half at that, lived in the Russian Empire, what Solzhenitsyn has to say is very relevant today.
February 26, 2018
Gostei muito porque aprendi muito.
Considero que é de leitura obrigatória para quem quiser compreender o que se passou, e se passa, nas Europas Central e Oriental.
Je l'ai aimé parce que j'ai beaucoup appris.
Je pense que c'est un must pour tous ceux qui veulent comprendre ce qui s'est passé et ce qui se passe en Europe Centrale et Orientale.
I liked it because I learned a lot.
I think it is a must for anyone who wants to understand what has happened, and what is happening, in Central and Eastern Europe.
Considero que é de leitura obrigatória para quem quiser compreender o que se passou, e se passa, nas Europas Central e Oriental.
Je l'ai aimé parce que j'ai beaucoup appris.
Je pense que c'est un must pour tous ceux qui veulent comprendre ce qui s'est passé et ce qui se passe en Europe Centrale et Orientale.
I liked it because I learned a lot.
I think it is a must for anyone who wants to understand what has happened, and what is happening, in Central and Eastern Europe.
March 9, 2021
Un libro doppio, chiarificatore unico, scritto da una grande volontà di porre alla luce quello che nessuno aveva la forza di esporre e quindi è toccato ancora una volta a Lui, grande A.Sol.!
Valido contributo anche per chi, onestamente, riconosce di non volersi perdere nei pesanti pre e post della Rivoluzione bolscevica. Ma vuole comunque sapere.
E, sugli ebrei, non lascia scampo ad equivoci. Da ebreo buono.
Valido contributo anche per chi, onestamente, riconosce di non volersi perdere nei pesanti pre e post della Rivoluzione bolscevica. Ma vuole comunque sapere.
E, sugli ebrei, non lascia scampo ad equivoci. Da ebreo buono.
November 29, 2020
Incomparabile Solženicyn
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