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KulakRevolt  10mo ago (anarchonomicon.com)   Edited 10mo ago   4087 thread views

The Anarchonomicon REAL Banned Book List

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Regime-banned books are in school libraries and on indigo bookshelves at eye level for children.

REAL banned books are often decades out of print, going for hundreds of dollars used on eBay, they've been disappeared by publishers and distributors in spite of interest and demand. Others have authors who've died or been imprisoned for their ideas, yet more have been removed from city or university-wide library systems so that their "Misinformation" and "Lies" do not poison impressionable scholars.

Yet more are suppressed algorithmically, not appearing on the author's wikipedia page and not appearing in Google search if you type the author and "book" or "memoirs"... but only appearing when you already know the full title of the work (try this yourself: Type in "Pinochet Memoirs", and then type in "Pinochet: A journey through a life")

Yet others are explicitly banned, some to the point where a mere PDF on your hard drive can result in a decade-long sentence... IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, NEW ZEALAND, and AUSTRIA.

This has been a massive project. over 200 titles on the full list and 10,000 words in my "Cursory" survey.

Let me take you on a journey into the heart of the forbidden

UPDATE: Also Checkout My Addendum to The Real Banned Book list on Holocaust Revisionist Liturature

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You mean revisionist works? Large number in post-Soviet sphere, in Western world most prominent is Grover Furr whose prodigious output shows how Stalin did absolutely nothing wrong.

His books are available on Amazon and generally more obscure than banned, because few people today really care one way or another.

https://www.amazon.com/Khrushchev-Lied-Revelation-Khrushchevs-Communist/dp/061544105X

https://www.amazon.com/Trotskys-Lies-Grover-Furr/dp/0578521040

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Lies-Evidence-Accusation-Bloodlands/dp/0692200991

I was thinking more first hand accounts.

I was thinking more first hand accounts.

Memoirs of actual torturers and executioners? No idea if there are any.

Memoirs of Soviet leaders? Only uncensored one I can recall is Molotov's published in 1993.

Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics

Not banned at all, available on Amazon.

Well, the editorial abridgement of English version could be considered as ban, if you are paranoid enough...

https://www.marxists.org/archive/molotov/1991/remembers-abs.htm

These abstracts were taken from the English version, which is an abridged form of the Russian version. The English version has 437 pages, while the Russian version is 735 pages. No explaination nor notice is given for why the English version has been so thoroughly abridged.

Anything to do with communism winds up being heavily censored whenever it comes to mentions of Jewish representation in the party.

Solzhenitsyn was maybe the most important Russian writer of the 20th century... And his 200 Years Together (on the list) is not translated despite considerable demand you have to track down samizdat fan translations.

Your mention of Solzhenitsyn peaked my interest a little, but after having looked at it for a bit as far as I'm concerned it's not difficult to acces at all all. It has a pretty big wikipedia article. It's been translated to German and French. In German it looks like you have to get it second hand (although you can find offerings easily) and in French you can just buy it on amazon. And apparently they're working on an English translation due next year.

There are also other works by Solzhenitsyn which haven't been translated to English yet by the way, not just the one that's about Jews.

Anything to do with communism winds up being heavily censored whenever it comes to mentions of Jewish representation in the party.

Maybe some conspiratory rants how all Communism was nothing than Jewish 666d clever chess move.

As for Jewish role in the revolution and early Soviet History, Yuri Slezkine and Mikhail Zygar wrote about it extensively and are as respectable mainstream academic authors as you can be.

Zygar is also the first person who opened (at least in the West) the Old Believer question. Yes, the non-Jewish Russian Bolsheviks way disproportionately originated from this small and persecuted religious group.

Mikhail Zygar: The Empire Must Die

His book actually opens and has a significant focus on the literary world of Russia, starting with the excommunication of Tolstoy for his Christian Anarchist Millenarianism and his over support for the Socialist Revolutionaries’ peasant platform. From there we get into his late friendship of Gorky, who donates most of his book money and family fortune to the Russian Social Democratic Party while cucking the theatre director Konstantin Stanislavsky of theatre kid fame. Gorky and his new girlfriend, Maria Andreyevna make acquaintances with the millionaire actress Vera Komissarzhevskaya and one of the richest industrialists in Russia, Savva Morozov and his nephew Nikolai Schmidt. These last three were the largest domestic contributors specifically to the Bolshevik party in the underground phase, and they all have connection to one another in a very specific minority religious sect that were renowned for being niggardly merchants.

That’s right, the Old Believers. Now, the Old Believer Question had been in the back of my mind as a lost factor in the Russian Revolution, especially since when I started to dig, I found quite a bit of crossover in the “disaffected sub elite” strata of Moscovite and Petersburg society. But no historian names the Raskol quite as explicitly as Zygar has done in his map of money and connections specifically to the underground Bolsheviks. While there were self financing activities in the Caucasus on the Party’s part, and still other contributors, Zygar makes the case that the unimportant lesser branch of social democracy got its greates pre March 1917 mindfalls from profligate Old Believers who had made up the “native” merchant burger artificially maintained ethno-religious group, which was so novel a take I found it worth writing these series of reviews to get to it.

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