Language:
English
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
Midstream
Angaben zur Quelle:
32,1 (1986) 21-31
Keywords:
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, Political and social views
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Stalin, Joseph,
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Communism
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Antisemitism
Abstract:
States that Stalin's policies were neither irrational nor accidental, but were based on a systematic global strategy of self-aggrandizement and national expansion. The right-wing totalitarian ideology he adopted in the 1940s, based on Russian nationalism, Orthodoxy, and antisemitism, lives on, while the ideas of Marxism are moribund. American conservatives hope to use the "good" Russian nationalism and its Orthodoxy to overthrow "Godless communism", with Solzhenitsyn serving as a figurehead. Contends that Solzhenitsyn is a blind fanatic, as fervent an Orthodox nationalist today as he was previously a fervent Stalinist. Blocked from advancement because of his tsarist family background, he now sees the October revolution as a Jewish conspiracy. Although he is a victim of Stalin's camps, he is also a tool of totalitarianism.
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