Comments on: A Martial State: Picks

By: peoplesgeography

peoplesgeography — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:10:23 +0000

Sure, and what he has written, the little of what is available thus far, is suggestive of his broaching these important topics. Its a space to watch anyway, and I’ll be sure to post anything I come across as the translations become available.

By: Freeborn

Freeborn — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:46:29 +0000

The Solzhenitsyn link (many thanks) covers Jabotinsky’s feeling that Russian Jews faced an intensely gloomy predicament pre-1917.

Jabotinsky perceived Russian anti-semitism to have external sources such as the Aryan supremacism he traced to Germany.

Strangely Solzhenitsyn does not take up this issue here.Nor is any reference made to Jabotinsky and Parvus’s role in the Young Turk and Bolshevik revolutions.Nor is the connection between the Armenian and Jewish Holocausts broached.

The intensification of anti-semitism in Russia was also triggered externally with the assassination of
Alexander II in 1881 conveniently blamed on Polish Jew.

Romanov wrath followed on the heels of the asssassination.It was at this point that the 1st “Aliyah” influx of Jews to Palestine began.

If anti-semitism in Russia was triggered from Germany so too was the Bolshevik take-over in 1917.Lenin and Trotsky,both bank-rolled by German Jewish interests and Wall St,were given safe passage by sealed train and ship respectively courtesy of German and Anglo-US intelligence.

While Solzhenitsyn’s piece is insightful re-pre-Revolutionary cultural currents these major historical events and actors surely merited consideration.

By: peoplesgeography

peoplesgeography — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:38:37 +0000

Thanks, Freeborn. I think we are all worried about the prospects for an unthinkable worsening, or as you write: "If the fascism of the Falangist Netanyahu and his Likud regain power we will see the “creative power” of violence writ large on the world stage in a new cataclysm that will dwarf the catastrophe in Palestine." Have you read some of Solzhenitsyn's writings, only recently translated into English, on the Russian Revolution and the Jewish Question? I'll insert a pdf link here.