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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, only one of these chapters had been published — in Knot I of the Red Wheel, known as August 1914 — while the remaining chapters would still have to languish in the author’s desk drawer for decades before appearing as part of The Red Wheel proper (November 1916 and March 1917, specifically). Read more …

Published: May 18, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Communism, North American New Right, originals, revolutionaries, socialism, sociopathy, Spencer J. Quinn, Switzerland, Vladimir Lenin, Zurich | 11 Responses

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On Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West

Spencer J. Quinn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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 speech, March 24, 1976

In the summer of 1975, the recently-exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered three speeches in the United States: two to labor organizations and one to Congress. The following year, he was interviewed by the BBC and then delivered a speech over British radio. Read more …

Published: October 23, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Communism, articles, Cold War, Communism, North American New Right, originals, Soviet Union, Spencer J. Quinn, the left, Warning to the West | 7 Responses

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

Spencer J. Quinn

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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 than quality. Not that his novels don’t contain great stuff – rather, they tend to lead the reader through long and uneven passages in between the moments of greatness. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, ethnocentrism, Matryona's House, North American New Right, originals, Russia, Russian literature, Spencer J. Quinn | 9 Responses

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

Spencer J. Quinn

Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, 1978

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s address at Harvard in June 1978 (video here), which was initially entitled “The Exhausted West” before being renamed “A World Split Apart” when it was published in book form, caused quite a stir among the Americans. Read more …

Published: June 21, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, freedom, human rights, humanism, materialism, North American New Right, originals, Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard address, Spencer J. Quinn, the United States, the West, Western values, white guilt | 11 Responses

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
The Rise of a Prophet

Spencer J. Quinn

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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 throughout her December 2018 Quillette article, “Solzhenitsyn: The Fall of a Prophet.” Published shortly after Solzhenitsyn’s 100th birthday, the article’s point, essentially, is to tarnish the reputation of a great man in order to steer discourse away from aspects of his work which the current zeitgeist finds problematic. Read more …

Published: February 4, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, Cathy Young, North American New Right, originals, Russia, Spencer J. Quinn | 13 Responses

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Letter to the Z Man

Spencer J. Quinn

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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. Read more …

Published: March 16, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, counter-Semitism, evolutionary psychology, Jews, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, originals, Spencer J. Quinn, the Z Man | 13 Responses

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The Soviet Gulag

Jonathan Bowden

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The following text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s New Right lecture of February 4, 2012. I want to thank Michèle Renouf for making the recording available. Read more …

Published: October 13, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Jonathan Bowden, Joseph Stalin, KGB, Russia, the gulag, totalitarianism, Ukraine, USSR, V. I. Lenin | 8 Responses

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Solzhenitsyn on the Jews & Tsarist Russia

F. Roger Devlin

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Deux siècles ensemble
Volume 1: Juifs et Russes avant la révolution
Paris: Fayard, 2002

It appears now that the English-speaking world will have to wait some time yet for a translation of Two Hundred Years Together, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s two volume study of Russian-Jewish relations. Translations into both French and German have been available for five years, and Italian, Hungarian, Greek, Czech, and Latvian editions are in the works. Read more …