Language:
English
Year of publication:
1985
Titel der Quelle:
Midstream
Angaben zur Quelle:
31, 6 (1985) 46-53
Keywords:
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich,
Abstract:
Most of the first volume of the new Russian version of "August 1914" is devoted to the 1911 assassination of Peter Stolypin, depicted as the incarnation of pure Russian nationalism and goodness; his assassin, portrayed as a Jew, depicts sickness, falsehood, and evil. Although presented as historical fact, Solzhenitsyn's account is fictionalized and perpetuates the myth of a Jewish plot against Russia. U.S. anti-communist bodies are helping to spread this book in the USSR. See the reply to this article by Alexis Klimoff ["Midstream" 36 (June-July 1986) 38-41] which contends that Solzhenitsyn was correct in stating that Bogrov identified himself and was generally identified as a Jew, and that his assassination of Stolypin was motivated by desire for revenge for the pogroms of 1905-6 as well as by revolutionary ideology. Denies that Solzhenitsyn, in characterizing Bogrov as a serpent, intended to present him as a force of cosmic evil like the Symbolic Serpent of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." See also Navrozov's response [Ibid. 42-49] in which he accuses Klimoff of producing an apologia for Solzhenitsyn's antisemitism which he himself shares. Solzhenitsyn needed to prove that all of the revolutionaries who destroyed Russia must have been Jewish and were serving the aims of Jewry. Bogrov himself (although born a Jew) declared that he killed Stolypin because he believed him to be the main cause of reaction. Other elements in the description of Bogrov are antisemitic
Abstract:
inventions. The identification of Bogrov with the serpent was first made by Lev Losev on Radio Liberty. His script, praising "August 1914, " has been pronounced "antisemitic and offensive, " and clearly indicates that he sees Bogrov as part of a Jewish conspiracy which was responsible for the course of Russian history since 1917.
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