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The Crucifixion of Russia: A new English translation of Solzhenitsyn’s 200 Years Together
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is considered by many to be the greatest writer of the 20th Century, with the arguable exception of George Orwell. Significantly, both Solzhenitsyn and Orwell were former Communists who became bitterly disillusioned with Marxism through their own up-close-andpersonal experience, and spent a large part of their literary lives denouncing the Marxist monster which so brutally disfigured their lives and their century. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s fiction and non-fiction classics include One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago, The First Circle, and an immense body of other work which is considered instrumental in breaking down the Communist system in the Soviet Union and leading to the end of Communist rule in Russia and Eastern Europe. His life and work is living proof that it is still possible for a single great mind to affect world events and bring about change in the human condition. spent roughly ten years toward the end of his life researching and writing a monumental and definitive work entitled 200 Years
Books by Columbus Falco -
The Crucifixion of Russia; India Shattering the Illusion;1937: Before The Chaos - also in Germany -1937: Wahrheit vor dem Chaos - Fascism & Dharma - also in Italy Fascismo and Dharma - India 70 Years after Midnight -Kashmir - The Birth of a New Nation - European Union - The Rape of Europa in many EU languages - Crucible of Decline - Holocausts vs. A Technical Complaint -
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is considered by many to be the greatest writer of the 20th Century, with the arguable exception of George Orwell. Significantly, both Solzhenitsyn and Orwell were former Communists who became bitterly disillusioned with Marxism through their own up-close-andpersonal experience, and spent a large part of their literary lives denouncing the Marxist monster which so brutally disfigured their lives and their century. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s fiction and non-fiction classics include One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago, The First Circle, and an immense body of other work which is considered instrumental in breaking down the Communist system in the Soviet Union and leading to the end of Communist rule in Russia and Eastern Europe. His life and work is living proof that it is still possible for a single great mind to affect world events and bring about change in the human condition. spent roughly ten years toward the end of his life researching and writing a monumental and definitive work entitled 200 Years
Books by Columbus Falco -
The Crucifixion of Russia; India Shattering the Illusion;1937: Before The Chaos - also in Germany -1937: Wahrheit vor dem Chaos - Fascism & Dharma - also in Italy Fascismo and Dharma - India 70 Years after Midnight -Kashmir - The Birth of a New Nation - European Union - The Rape of Europa in many EU languages - Crucible of Decline - Holocausts vs. A Technical Complaint -
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Published October 16, 2017
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August 17, 2018
Another book banned by Amazon & big business. Barnes & Nobles also.
Amazon bought CreateSpace so they could destroy an independent publisher to censor once again.
Shame on anyone buying anything from Amazon & it's affiliates.
Amazon bought CreateSpace so they could destroy an independent publisher to censor once again.
Shame on anyone buying anything from Amazon & it's affiliates.
January 31, 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. Genealogical research, not available in Solzhenitsyn's time, tends to support the Middle Eastern origins of the Ashkenazi Jews of Russia.
It is great that this book is finally available in English. This review was written of the original Russian and the French version, which has been out for years. Russian, French or English, it is a rather dense and difficult book in any case..
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:1410792617 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. They 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. Genealogical research, not available in Solzhenitsyn's time, tends to support the Middle Eastern origins of the Ashkenazi Jews of Russia.
It is great that this book is finally available in English. This review was written of the original Russian and the French version, which has been out for years. Russian, French or English, it is a rather dense and difficult book in any case..
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:1410792617 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. They 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.
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