Two Hundred Years Together / 200 Years Together: On Russian-Jewish Relations, 1795-1995

Two Hundred Years Together is a two-volume historical essay by Nobel Price winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dealing with the Russian-Jewish relations from 1795, leading up to the Communist revolution (Vol. 1) and then through the Communist era to 1995 (Vol. 2). The original Russian volumes were first published in 2001 and 2002 respectively. French (Fayard, 2002) and German (HERBIG, 2003) translations were published soon after, but until now only a partial English translation of this remarkable work was available in The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings (Lanham, 2006). The importance of a complete English translation has been discussed online ever since the books were first published, and in October 2010 the first chapters were posted online on a wordpress site called Adam’s Blog, however the owner of that site received a warning by the copyright-holders in August 2011 and the translation process stopped in its tracks. It wasn’t until January 2017 that voices showing the public interest in a full English translation became loud enough that pseudonymous people took it upon themselves to finish what had been started nearly a decade earlier.