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Letter to the Z Man

1,946 words Dear Z Man, Like most of your articles, I thought your “Letter to the Antisemites” from March 11 was perfectly reasonable and well-put, yet I believe it missed a few crucial points. I...

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Rise of a Prophet

3,769 words It’s striking how cherry-picking can hone the pen of a propagandist and disguise malice behind a veneer of reason. Jewish writer Cathy Young provides excellent examples of this all...

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Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards: Revisiting Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard...

Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, 1978 2,508 words Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s address at Harvard in June 1978 (video here), which was initially entitled “The Exhausted West” before being renamed “A World Split...

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“Matryona’s House”: Solzhenitsyn’s Love Letter to the Russian People

1,759 words Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn seemed to write novels like a historian. It’s as if he didn’t always know which details were more important than others, and so erred on the side of quantity rather...

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On Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 3,604 words And all of us are standing on the brink of a great historical cataclysm, a flood that swallows up civilization and changes whole epochs. –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, BBC...

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Lenin in Zürich

2,691 words In 1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn excised the several Lenin chapters from his massive and unfinished Red Wheel epic and compiled them into one volume entitled Lenin in Zürich. At the time,...

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March 1917 in June 2020

3,515 words A recurring theme in Book 1 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s March 1917 — or Node III of his vast Red Wheel opus — is “this could have been prevented.” Of course, this refers to the first...

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The Prison Plays of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

5,026 words Known mostly as a novelist, memoirist, and historian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had actually completed four plays before his first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, was published...

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Stolypin vs. Bogrov: Themes of Ethnonationalism in Solzhenitsyn’s August 1914

4,457 words The white man stood tall and proud. He was handsome and confident, and was well-dressed in his white summer-weight frock coat. Regal, although not quite the Tsar. As Prime Minister, he was...

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Benjamin Ginsburg’s How the Jews Defeated Hitler

2,419 words Benjamin Ginsburg How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013 Benjamin Ginsburg has his uses...

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Solzhenitsyn from Under the Rubble

3,648 words Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn et al.From Under the RubbleBoston: Little, Brown & Company (1975) Shortly before being deported from the Soviet Union in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn contributed...

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Jews, Fake News, & Interviews: The Memoirs of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4,083 words The memoirs of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn are unique in his vast body of work given that they serve more as metadata than data regarding the man’s impact upon the culture...

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Weaponizing History: Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together Part 1

3,076 words Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Two Hundred Years Together Moscow: Vagrius, 2005 No sane person wants to lie. Aside from whatever harm lying might cause, lying also chips away at a person’s dignity....

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Weaponizing History: Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together, Part 2

1,991 words  Part 1 here Chapter Ten: The Period of the Duma Despite including little by way of terrorism or atrocity, chapter ten is one of the most revealing and fascinating chapters in all of Two...

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Smashing the Balance: Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together, Part 3

2,025 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here By the time the reader begins the second volume of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together, he’s aware of a complex yet fragile balance established by...

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The Bloody Red Pill: Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together, Part 5

2,288 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here Large numbers of Jews who did not leave after the revolution failed to foresee the bloodthirstiness of the new government, though the...

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Thwarting Jewish Conquest: Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together Part 6 of 6

3,162 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here Much of the tremendous value of Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together rests in how it was written completely without...

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Now in Audio Version! Spencer J. Quinn on 200 Years Together Counter-Currents...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 171 words / 1:37:05 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” This is an audio recording of Spencer...

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Solzhenitsyn for Today’s World

1,766 words Spencer J. Quinn Solzhenitsyn & the Right Quakertown, Pa.: Antelope Hill The widespread perception of Solzhenitsyn as a figure inseparable from the vanished world of the Cold War has...

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The Unwritten Constitution

1,174 words Historically, when an authoritarian regime takes power, the written law tends to cease to be representative of real-life interaction with the state. I am reminded of Aleksandr...

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Solipsism to Nihilism: A “Ceaușescu Moment”?

Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife shortly before their televised execution on December 25, 1989. 2,188 words “A regime built on lies always ends in collapse.” — Z-Man, “An Empire of Lies” Solipsism: a...

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 456 A Special Juneteenth Episode of The...

415 words / 2:39:15 Jim Goad was host Nick Jeelvy‘s very special guest on the Juneteenth broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, where Jim regaled us with tales of African contributions to the United States as...

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Stolypin vs. Bogrov: etnonacionalistické motivy v Solženicynově Srpnu 1914

Pjotr Arkaďjevič Stolypin 3.659 slov English original here Vysoký muž  se nesl s  hrdostí, pohledný, sebevědomý ve svém dobře padnoucím lehkém bílém redingotu. Přestože působil málem královsky, car to...

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A Beginner’s Guide to the Jewish Question

A Yiddish election poster from Ukraine in 1917 which reads, in Yiddish, “Vote for the United Jewish Socialist Workers’ Party.” 5,861 words Introduction When approaching the Jewish Question, a beginner...

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The Russian Civil War: Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together, Part 4

1,751 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here Solzhenitsyn points out early in chapter sixteen of Two Hundred Years Together that immediately after the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks wielded...

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