Solzhenitsyn and the Right

by Spencer J. Quinn

"During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be." -Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne of the most famous anti-Communist dissidents, Russian-born Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a war veteran, philosopher, historian, novelist, and political prisoner. At one time a firm believer in Marxist-Leninism, he fought for the Red Army in the Second World War until a private criticism of Joseph Stalin resulted in his arrest and eight-year imprisonment within the brutal Soviet gulag system. As he turned away from Communism and back to the Christian faith of his birth, his writings increasingly drew the ire of the Soviet authorities until his ultimate deportation in 1974.In exile, Solzhenitsyn became disenchanted with the values upon which most modern Western nations were founded. Decrying their lack of spirituality and tradition as producing men with weak ties to God, their ancient soil, and to each other, he never ceased predicting the downfall of the West.With a multitude of important political observations and experiences, Solzhenitsyn was a prolific writer whose works are intimidatingly long. His three-volume opus on the Soviet forced labor camps, The Gulag Archipelago , approaches 2,000 pages. Two Hundred Years Together , his two-part study of Jews in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, comes in at over 1,000 pages in the original Russian. The English translation of The Red Wheel , his four-part cycle of historical fiction about the fall of Tsarist Russia, presently weighs in at over 3,000 pages. The restored edition of In the First Circle , a novel about gulag prisoners working for Stalin's state security apparatus, consists of more than 700 pages. Naturally Solzhenitsyn's own memoirs are suitably immense, with The Oak and the Calf , Invisible Allies , and the first two books of Between Two Millstones spilling out over 1,700 total pages. As a great service to modern dissidents, Spencer J. Quinn has distilled the ideas and observations from Solzhenitsyn's vast corpus into a slender volume which can be quickly consumed and learned.Antelope Hill Publishing is proud to present Solzhenitsyn and the Right , an original work in which Spencer J. Quinn has refined Solzhenitsyn's anti-Leftist, anti-progressive, and traditionalist political themes into nothing less than a metapolitical weapon against the enemies of humanity.

Genres: Politics, Philosophy, History

200 pages, Paperback

Published September 12, 2022

Reviews

[Nick John · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good read. I have to say the goal set out by the author, Spencer J Quinn, to condense all the major works of Solzhenitsyn into a smaller more consumable reader with updated commentary from the perspective of a 21st century White Dissident was not only accomplished but a very important goal that needed to be achieved. I would really recommend the book to anyone who simply wants a condensed reader on the life and works of such a great and brave author like Solzhenitsyn.

That being said what I didn't like about the book had more to do with Quinns ideology rather then his writing style ( which is excellent might I add, he does great work over at Counter-Currents). He seems to have an unhealthy obsession with the belief that it is "The Left" that is the real issue at the core not strictly the subversive element that uses both Right and Left traditional politics to destroy white homelands. He seems to be a firm believer in this sort of "pro white conservative nationalism but don't got to to hard on the JQ because it makes us look a little TOO crazy at times." This is the one area where the book is definitely more tailored to people obsessed with the traditional "right" of the neo liberal political compass when I felt as though, outside of the books namesake, the very beginning of it stresses that it is a for White dissidents. If that is who the books updated commentary is suppose to be for then ideology put forth by the Quinn needs a serious "firmware update" if you will.

The Right, Left liberal political compass is not the be all end all of the fight and it is not Jewish Communism that is danger of returning to destroy the west and by proxy white people. It is Jewish Capitalism that is currently already here and in full swing eating us from within. Most importantly it doesn't matter at which point on the JQ train you decide to get off at before reaching full on Holohoax denial, you are always going to be perceived as the enemy by them and unworthy to have a fair day in court. Mine as well finish the whole ride.

[Καιρὸς · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've been looking forward to reading this book for along time because I've been meaning to get into the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and in alot of ways this book serves as a good introduction. However that being said any comparisons made to tsarist Russia and the Russian revolution to the current political situation in the west especially America I strongly disagree with. I also disagree with solzhenitsyn (and by extension the author of this book) believing that Jews going to Palestine could be a possible solution to the two millennia long clash between Jews and Gentiles, it's incredibly naïve.

[A K · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting concept, understandable, and on topic throughout the whole book. There were parts that really didn't interest me and I started to get bored but continued reading. On the one hand I would only reccomend you read this book if you are a RWer interested in the JQ and the "Russian Revolution", but as for everything else that he summarizes from Solz., especially in his last chapter "Warning to the West," you won't be hearing anything new or groundbreaking.