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Solzhenitsyn on the Jews and Soviet Russia, Part IV
This is the final online installment of F. Roger Devlin’s review-essay on volume 2 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together: Jews and Russians during the Soviet Period. The author’s review of volume 1, Jews and Russians before the Revolution, is available here in PDF format.Most of Solzhenitsyn’s Jewish sources concede that the Soviet authorities...
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Solzhenitsyn on the Jews and Soviet Russia, Part III
Editor’s Note: This review-essay on volume 2 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together: Jews and Russians during the Soviet Period will appear online in four parts. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. The author’s review of volume 1, Jews and Russians before the Revolution, is available here in PDF format.In the first years of the new regime there...
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Solzhenitsyn on the Jews and Soviet Russia, Part II
Editor’s Note: This review-essay on volume 2 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together: Jews and Russians during the Soviet Period will appear online in four parts. Read the first part here. The author’s review of volume 1, Jews and Russians before the Revolution, is available here in PDF format.One of the best promoted legends about the Russian...
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Solzhenitsyn on the Jews and Soviet Russia, Part I
Deux siècles ensembleVolume 2: Juifs et Russes pendant la periode soviétiqueAleksandr SolzhenitsynParis: Fayard, 2003 Editor’s Note: This review-essay on volume 2 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together: Jews and Russians during the Soviet Period will appear online in four parts. The author’s review of volume 1, Jews and Russians before the...
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The Family Way
Third Ways:How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies—and Why They Disappeared Allan C. CarlsonWilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2007Economic science is so imposing an edifice viewed from outside—with its technical paraphernalia, its libraries full of books and journals, its endowed professorships and international...
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An Aristocracy of Industry?
Reinventing Aristocracy:The Constitutional Reformation of Corporate Governanceby Andrew FraserBrookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1998If you own even a single share of stock, you have probably been pestered with letters requiring your opinion on matters of corporate policy well beyond your competence to decide. Should the firm add Joe Schmedlep to its Board of...
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Greek and Barbarian
The Landmark Herodotus:The HistoriesEdited by Robert B. StrasslerNew York: Pantheon, 2007Independent scholar Robert Strassler has produced far and away the best English edition aimed at the general reader of the work which remains the fountainhead of the Western historical tradition. Let us hope there is still a fit audience out there for it—men, that is, capable of learning what...
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