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F I R S T- T I M E E V E R E N G L I S H R E V I E W O F BA N N E D B O O K B Y A L E K S A N D R S O L Z H E N I T S Y NJewsTHESOVIET UNIONPart 2 of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’sbanned book series 200 Years Together—a review by German historian Udo Walendyin theThe Communist October Revolution in RussiaThe domestic and international dimensions of theBolshevik revolution can be grasped only by familiarizationwith what happened in the powercenters of the capitals of Petrograd (formerly St.Petersburg, later called Leningrad) and, fromMarch 1918 on, Moscow, and the consequent effects on the vasttracts of Russia. Enough books have appeared concerning this.The goal of this review is to show two things: 1) that AleksandrSolzhenitsyn, despite all the suffering he has undergoneand learned of from his companions in fate, has remained aRussian nationalist patriot; and 2) to summarize his key findings.First, here is a summary of illustrative quotations fromSolzhenitsyn taken from his classic and massive The GULAGArchipelago:The river [of political prisoners] that flowed in the years1937-38 was neither the only one, nor even the main one—perhaps only one of the three large rivers that brought thedark stinking pipes of our prison channels almost to bursting.The river of the years 1920-30 had preceded it. . . . It hadsloshed a good 15 million muzhiks (if not even more) intothe taiga and the tundra. . . . And afterward there was the inmateriver of 1944-46. . . . Whole nations were pumpedthrough the discharge pipes [such as Cossacks, Tatars, ethnicGerman Russians, Poles, Balts, Hungarians etc] and in additionthere were millions and millions of [Soviet] returnees[from German wartime labor camps and factories], GermanPOWs and new forced labor hordes. . . . The prison pipelinenever remained empty. 2At the end of November 1917 . . . the members of the CadetParty were also declared outlaws. Arrests followed immediately.The members of the Federation of Constituents [the advocatesof a democratic constitution] and the network of the “soldieruniversities” were immediately included.Lifted from an NKVD circular of December 1917:In view of the sabotage of the work of our officials . . . amaximum of self-initiative is to be displayed by local authorities,who by no means should avoid using confiscations,coercive measures and arrests. 3Solzhenitsyn writes that while Lenin was demanding themerciless subjugation of all attempters of anarchy, he publishedon January 7 and 10, 1918, two articles to guide his Bolsheviks,demanding, as Lenin said, “the cleansing of Russian soil of allvermin.”T H E B A R N E S R E V I E W 7
Solzhenitsyn adds:Under vermin he understood not only everything that washostile and outside of the working class, but also workersthemselves who avoided labor. ...” 4 Vermin were naturally thezemstvo farmers, the tradesmen and all home owners. . . . Itwas vermin that were singing in the church choirs. 5 [Zemstvorefers to a form of local government instituted during the greatliberal reforms of imperial Russia by Alexander II.]—Ed.Other vermin were high school teachers and church councilmembers. “All clergymen [were] vermin,” remembered Solzhenitsyn.The same applied to railroad men who refused an oathswearing armed defense of Soviet authority, telegraphers unsympathetictoward their new masters and insubordinate tradeunionists.Solzhenitsyn says:The Cheka’s [secret police] taskwas to settle accounts outside thecourt system. In all of man’s history itrepresented a unique kind of repressiveorgan—one single authority entrustedwith spying on citizens, witharresting them, with conducting investigationsof them, with directingtheir prosecution, furnishing theirjudges and carrying out sentencesupon them. 6In February 1918 the Sovnarkom’s chairman, VladimirIlyich Lenin, demanded an increase in the number of prisonsas well as more severe punitive repression, and in May headded concrete sentencing guidelines for the “punishmentof corruption”: a minimum of 10 years prison plus 10 yearsat a hard labor camp. 7With regard to foreign policy the Bolsheviks secured themselvesa respite by making peace with Germany in the Brest-Litovsk Treaty of March 1918. Their representatives at theconference were Leon Trotsky (formerly Bronstein), AdolfYoffe, Lev Kamenev (formerly Rosenfeld) and Gregory Sokolnikov(formerly Brilliant). On August 26, 1918 Lenin instructedby telegram: “Dubious persons are to be locked up in concentrationcamps outside of the city. Relentless mass terror is to becarried out.” 8Tens of thousands of hostages were killed “for deterrence”during the 1917-1922 civil war, with hundreds drowned at atime by sinking them on barges in the White Sea in the Arctic.“‘Vermin’ were naturally thesmall- and medium-sizedfarmers, the tradesmen andall home owners. It was‘vermin’ that were singingin the church choirs.”The NKVD instructed its local offices on August 30, 1918with this ominous order:All right-wing Social Revolutionaries [The Social Revolutionarieswere socialists but not Bolsheviks, hence werecalled right-wingers.—Ed.] are to be immediately imprisoned,and a considerable number of bourgeois and officersalso must be taken hostage.By resolution of the Defense Council of February 15,1919 the Cheka and the NKVD were instructed to seizehostages from the farmers of those areas “wherever theclearing of snowdrifts off the railroad tracks is not progressingsatisfactorily; in this case, if the work is not done, theycan be shot.”On September 5, 1918 the major decree setting in motionthe Red Terror followed, with instructions for mass shootingsand erecting concentration camps under the direct authority ofthe Cheka. The decree read: “For attemptsto escape from concentrationcamps the punishment is a tenfold increaseof prison time and, for repeated attempts,shooting.”At the end of 1920 Social Democratswere again targeted as hostages. ChekaOrder No. 10 of January 8, 1921 ordered“intensification of the repression of thebourgeoisie.” This was after the end ofthe civil war! The Cheka also continuedrounding up Mensheviks (the anti-terrorist communists], andother members of smaller parties on nocturnal excursions.People were also shot recklessly on the basis of arbitrarylists—particularly academics, artists, authors and engineers.With the regulation on forced food-collection of January 1919,the farmers were also targeted.Later, in the 1930s, the mass “collectivization of agriculture”in Ukraine led to the death by starvation of about 6 millionhumans.Solzhenitsyn remembered:Any man who has not yet been flung into the sewagechannel, Solzhenitsyn writes from his bitter personal experience,and whoever has not yet been pumped himselfthrough the pipes into the GULAG archipelago, shouldmarch about, joyfully above-ground, with flags flying andbands playing, praising the courts, and expressing ecstasyover his acquittal.From Solzhenitsyn’s summary in The GULAG Archipelago:8 S E P T E M B E R / O C T O B E R 2 0 0 8 B A R N E S R E V I E W . C O M • 1 - 8 7 7 - 7 7 3 - 9 0 7 7 O R D E R I N G
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