Вместе или врозь? Судьба евреев в России. Заметки на полях дилогии А. И. Солженицына

Semyon Reznik, writer, historian and journalist, author of historical novels, scientific and artistic biographies, historical and publicistic books about Russia of the last two centuries. Lives in the USA. Employee of the radio station "Voice of America". Semyon Reznik's book is a reliable and dramatic story about the Jews in Russia and their persecutors. About those who dumped on them the sins of first the tsarist, and then the Soviet government, and dumped them, and themselves, and the country into the abyss. In 2003, the publishing house "Zakharov" published a book by S. Reznik "Together or apart?", Covering mainly the pre-revolutionary period. In the new edition - twice as large in volume - the story is brought to the present day. This book is not so much an analysis of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's dilogy "Two Hundred Years Together" as a parallel reading of the history of Russia, with an attempt to determine the real place in it of the Jews and the so-called Jewish question. If A. Solzhenitsyn mainly draws on "Jewish sources", mostly secondary ones (materials from the "Jewish Encyclopedias", journalistic works and memoirs for the most part of minor persons), then S. Reznik is based on primary source documents, testimonies of the highest ranks of the tsarist and Soviet administration, direct participants in the events, in some cases - on special works of historians. Although the polemic with Solzhenitsyn runs through the entire narrative, the content of the book is not limited to it: it is much deeper and wider.