Shadow World: Resurgent Russia, The Global New Left, and Radical Islam

by Robert Chandler

THE SECRET WAR AGAINST AMERICA
America is at war and the stakes are huge. The fight is not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a global contest between the United States, radical Islam, a resurgent Russia, and a virulent New Left that is coming to power in Latin America and stalking the corridors of power around the world, including the United States. These three enemies of America are separate but they cooperate--and in his stunning new book, Shadow World, Robert Chandler shows how. In Shadow World you'll

* Why "post-Communist" Russia is not really "post-Communist" at all, but represents an insidious new strategic threat to the United States
* How "cultural communism" has rejuvenated the radical Left's prospects around the world
* Why American-style democracy is losing out to Castro and Hugo Chavez-style communism in Latin America
* How radical Islam has allied itself to the New Left--and why this makes radical Islam even more dangerous than before

Shadow World reveals, in a way no other book has done, the new strategic realities of the post-Cold War, post-9/11 world. Provocative, insightful, thorough, it is essential reading for those who want to see the 21st century as America's century, and not the century of her enemies.

Genres: Politics

622 pages, Hardcover

First published August 5, 2008

About the author

Robert Chandler (b. 1953) is a British poet and translator. He is the editor of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida (Penguin) and the author of Alexander Pushkin (Hesperus).

His translations include numerous works by Andrei Platonov, Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, and Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter. Chandler's co-translation of Platonov's Soul was chosen in 2004 as “best translation of the year from a Slavonic language” by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). His translation of Hamid Ismailov’s The Railway won the AATSEEL prize for Best Translation into English in 2007,[1] and received a special commendation from the judges of the 2007 Rossica Translation Prize. Chandler’s translations of Sappho and Guillaume Apollinaire are published in the Everyman’s Poetry series.

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shadow World reads like a reference book on the activities of marxist communists, radical Islam and the globalist progressive elite assault against the capitalist West. There is so much information in this book it can be overwhelming. The number of organizations alone it is staggering. How they carry out their propaganda campaigns to win hearts and minds, or distract attention away from their overt actions is truly stunning. Every person who believes in America needs to read this book and understand how we are being taken apart piece by piece.

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three sworn enemies of freedom are exposed by Chandler's extended report. The evidence is overwhelming, but I doubt most Americans have any idea what is about to hit us. Well researched, but hurriedly written and difficult to follow at times.

[Peter J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

While skeptical about the Andropov plan portion, the rest of this was terrifyingly accurate and eye opening. To hell with Gramscian Marxists and the "useful idiots" (i.e. modern American liberals) they manipulate.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Shadow World" attempts to document the interconnection among Russia, the Political Left, and Radical Islam. It shows their common objective of destroying Christianity and traditional moral values in order to achieve their goals and their occasional interaction with each other in order to do so. It's greatest success is in going beyond documentation of the already known deep interconnection between the mainstream media and the Democratic Party--it connects well-known media sources like ABC News and The Washington Post to Soviet/Russian disinformation operations. It also reveals deep, interwoven connections between Communist front organizations and their successors to household names in the modern political Left. Where the book could have done better is in reaching out to the skeptic. It well documents the Russian/Leftist strategy from Gramscian socialist theory to the Andropov doctrine to Golitsyn's accurate predictions, but it could have more specifically defended against the "conspiracy theory" charge by explaining how believing that the Soviet Union had a strategy for defeating the West by corrupting it from within is nowhere near the same thing as the "conspiracy theory" trope. Ironically, looking in retrospect, given that this book was published in 2008, if it had predicted some of the sexual extremism that was the lunatic fringe of 2008 but is force-fed as mandatory orthodoxy today, it would have been immediately dismissed as unrealistic fear mongering. And while the book documents little of Radical Islam's connection to this strategy, it is now well-seen today in the overt anti-Semitism in the Left and the willingness of Islamists to promote sexual immorality condemned by Islam because the removal of Judaeo-Christian ethics from the West is their more immediate objective. If there is any legitimate criticism of the book in retrospect, it is not that it was too alarmist but that it wasn't alarmist enough.