Excerpt from a negative critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s magnum opus—Two Hundred Years Together—a comprehensive history of Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and modern Russia between the years 1795 and 1995
“Solzhenitsyn claims that Jews promoted alcoholism among the peasantry, flooded the retail trade with contraband, and “strangled” the Russian merchant class in Moscow.[21] He says that according to Solzhenitsyn, Jews are non-producing people (“непроизводительный народ”)[22] and refuse to engage in factory labor.[23] They are averse to agriculture and unwilling to till the land either in Russia, in Argentina, or in Palestine,[24] and the author blames the Jews’ own behavior for pogroms.[25] He says that Solzhenitsyn also claims that Jews used Kabbalah to tempt Russians into heresy,[26] seduced Russians with rationalism and fashion,[27] provoked sectarianism and weakened the financial system,[28] committed murders on the orders of qahal authorities,[29] and exerted undue influence on the prerevolutionary government.[30]“
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