When I was on Stormfront, a member who actually was good at debating and polite and understood passion for things told me that I should read this book. And that if I think anything good of Stalin/Communism afterwards, I am inhuman and do not deserve to live

Is it any good?

Is it difficult to read?

This is what Wikipedia says about it...

The Guy you were Debating unfortunitely is probably some Idoit who denies the existance of the Holocost and doesn't know the difference between Communism and the USSR.

I forget the exact username but he has alot of letters & numbers in his username. They are ignoring me now because I think they think I am just a disillusioned youth who will wake up sooner or latter. When I first joined the site, a few people said I didn't deserve to breath but after I started explaining myself they became nicer somehow. I hope they don't hold theirs for a conversion.

I do not see any harm in reading this book. Can someone tell me more about hte author? I heard he was banned by the USSR?

Nazis liking you is not a good sign.

Here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

I heard that the author was a religious fanatic (some say a la Dostoyevsky) who hated the USSR but didn't really love the secular capitalist countries either.

However...I'm not 100% sure.

It is Russia, I love Russian culture, and therefore have a inbuilt tolerance for all things Orthodox.

Was he a Tsarist?

No...because the Tsar was gone.

He probably perfer a "kingdom of god & christ".

He wanted the Orthodox Church to take over and something about "the rapture", etc (or so I heard).

If you believe in Stalin and apologize for his crimes against working class brothers and sisters as well as against communists, you are not a communist yourself.

The greatest lie in human history is that Stalinism=Communism.

you had better get used to it because the record shows thats the only way to get communists or socialists into power.

Haha, what is this!!!

What record? How, according to your unlimited ignorance, do communists come to power?

Stalin got into power because he murdered and repressed all of his dissenters and working class people. Unlike imbeciles like you, I understand that Russia under Stalin was state-capitalist, with a petty-bourgeois ruling class in power, in the form of managers and "experts."

So face it, you don't have the ability to recognize what really went on and goes on, as well as material conditions.

I really need to start referring to pro-monarchy websites because that is not the case with a small amount of people (some of them US citizens)...

The Rapture and Orthodoxy? I shudder to think of such a dangerous connection.

Has anyone liked this book? Absolutely hate it?
Is it worth buying?

Not sure why you would accept book recommendations from a fascist but anyone who equates Stalin with communism doesn't know what s/he's talking about.

Past thread on the author

Discussion on Stalin
Stalin

Thanks Janus, hopefully that will clear things up for these ignorant cockroaches.

I liked it, but I will say that it can be quite the put-to-sleep book. It's exciting, its boring, its fascinating, its unfulfilling. No harm in reading it, it is rather plump though (600 pages, small text). Gives a decent, first hand account of those imprisoned during the USSR. If you do read it, enjoy!

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a POS. In his latest book, he has resorted to old Zionist conspiracies and such and the nazis are really jacking off to it. He gets himself out of "trouble" from the mainstream by letting a rumor circulate that his wife is Jewish, which apparently it's ok in some people's mind to be a racist asshole so long as you bang someone who isn't white.

Solz. has also supported fascism in public. His work is highly questionable. While that wikipedia quote describes his books as highly researched, etc I think you will find most of his work is original research and mostly can't be confirmed. He also claims 60 million people where killed in the Stalin era, a number even the most reactionary of other "scholars" won't associate with. Most of these liars are trying to create a consensus of 20 millionish now, though most serious of the archivists say that is way over exaggerated.

Much of his work has been dubunked, do a search on some Marxist-Leninist websites and I am sure you can find something.

Also, try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stalinist and post a question.

Here is a small excerpt on him from "Lies Concerning the History of the USSR"

I attempt to disbelieve!

Fumble, drat. I guess it did happen. =|

... I don't think that's what he meant...

Never, ever, use those words interchangeably.

yours angrily, lux

Solzhenitsyn was a great novelist....and an extreme political reactionary who really was a Tsarist. I recommend his novels they are a really good read.

The Gulag Archipeligo is hard to read its boring but its an important record of suffering - however in accurate and speculative in parts. Communists should never forget the horrors of the camps.

Reading him is part of what made me a Communist......and that would disappoint him.