Двести лет вместе: Часть 2. В Советское Время

Двести лет вместе #2

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Александр Солженицын

В 27 томе Собрания сочинений публикуется вторая часть исследования «Двести лет вместе» (впервые: М.: Русский мир, 2002), посвященная русско-еврейским отношениям «в советское время». Решительно отвергая миф о совершенной евреями революции, автор анализирует участие евреев в событиях 1917 года и Гражданской войне (в том числе в рядах Белого движения). «Еврейский вопрос» в СССР рассматривается в тесной связи как с общей судьбой европейского еврейства в ХХ веке и Катастрофой, так и с трагедией России, оказавшейся под властью коммунистов: извилистый процесс ассимиляции евреев в 1920—1930-х гг. и его следствия (в том числе рост низового антисемитизма); судьба российского еврейства в п&

Genres: History, Nonfiction

640 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

also 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...

Reviews

[Jason Carter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I reviewed Vol I previously and found it helpful. Vol II is superior to Vol I, not least perhaps because it deals with more recent history a bit more accessible to the modern American.

This volume begins with the February Revolution in 1917 and details the prominent Jewish role in the Russian revolution and the assassination of the tsar. It further details their rise to power in the Bolshevik government and highly disproportionate representation in the communist government and their brutal behavior in the suppression of Christianity and the massacre of the priests, as well as the dekulakization in the Soviet Union.

Solzhenitsyn pulls no punches in this volume but is fair throughout, recognizing the precarious position Jews held for the previous periods in Russia. He also deals with their fall from grace in the Soviet Union following their period of ascendancy in the 20s and 30s.

The author is sympathetic to the Jewish plight throughout but holds no countenance for the "always a victim" grievance insisted upon by the majority of Jewish intellectuals. As a Russian himself, Solzhenitsyn calls the Jews to task for their own part in the tortured history of the Russians' and Jews' 200 years together.

Recommended.

[Bobby Daugherty · Rating 4 out of 5]

He makes great efforts to understand why they are the way they are without making excuses for them, but it unquestionable that they are a curse to the lands they inhabit as well as the unfortunate people who are their neighbors. Like any plague they should be shunned.

[Pic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Idem, come volume I.

[Álvaro Athayde · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.