The Most Banned Book in the World

Some trads will be familiar with the name and works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn because he was frequently referred to in Bishop Williamson’s Eleison Comments.1 Others might be familiar with the many conferences given at various times and places by Dr. David Allen White.2 And still others may only be familiar with his notorious 1978 Harvard University graduation speech, in which he roundly indicted the Western world for its materialism, and seemed to suggest it was heading right back to the Gulags he had survived in Russia.3

But although it is certain that The Gulag Archipelago was his most famous work, and that which was responsible for his name becoming familiar to Western readers, arguably his greatest work has been, by concerted and coordinated effort, hidden and obscured from view, for reasons which will become obvious.

The book is called “200 Years Together,” and was published in two volumes, in Russian, in 2001-2002, and covers the cohabitation of Russians and Jews from 1795-1995.

In Vol. I (titled “Before the Revolution”), we are given a cursory history of the origin of the Jews who emigrated to Russia, from their beginnings in Khazaria, their Judaizing within Russia once there, and their general activities until the revolution of 1917.

Vol. II recounts their post-revolutionary activities within the Soviet Union.

For years, I had searched for this book online, but until fairly recently, unexpurgated translations had only existed (somewhat surprisingly) in German and French. The reader will still search in vain for any such paper copies in English. No booksellers (brick and mortar or online) would carry it. And no websites which have attempted to make this manuscript available have remained online for long.

Other excellent works exposing the Jewish plot against Christian society abound (e.g., The Plot Against the Church by Pinay, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, or The International Jew by Ford), yet Solzhenitsyn’s book appears to be strictly verboten. It is THE book, before all others, to be forbidden. So while the others are simply maligned, and potential readers guilt-shamed into ignoring them, this one is to be eradicated from the public gaze.

All that said, I’d thought to have found a surprise breakthrough on Abe Books, which advertised a handsome red leatherbound single volume edition printed in India, but to my chagrin upon receiving it (and having paid handsomely for it), the table of contents revealed that nearly half of the entire book had been excised.

Take a look:

I had nearly given up hopes of ever getting my hands on a complete English translation over the next few years, until today, when I happily stumbled upon this webpage, which contains the whole manuscript!

I have also downloaded the complete PDF below for posterity, as it seems that websites and webpages which have attempted to make this document available are routinely removed or deleted:

If The Seraphim should ever become unexpectedly inaccessible, you now know the reason.

I hope the potential readers of this work will not be so timid as to believe that a Nobel Prize winner was some cheap antisemite (the label assigned to all who have the intellectual boldness not to be satisfied with taking the guided tour).

If you even deigned to read nothing more than Ch. 1 (Vol. 1), you’ll know more than 99.9% of the world about Jewish history in Russia.