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Some participants in the Russian Revolution could not get the fate of the French Revolution out of their heads, and Kerensky was among them. When spring moved toward summer, he ordered a new, make-or-break offensive in the war, and soon mass demonstrations for peace boiled over again in P...
often as deputy governors,” says historian Dubrovsky. “Overall, the families of military personnel see themselves as part of a superior class, a perception eagerly reinforced by Putin’s propaganda.”
Debord’s adage “Love is possible only on the eve of a revolution” could well have been endorsed by Shpalikov. Debord was the founder of Situationism. An amazing poet, screenwriter, and director, Shpalikov was the Soviet Guy Debord. Like Debord, Shpalikov had an explicitly spatial mi...
They point to Lenin’s State and Revolution as proving the "democratic" (even "libertarian") nature of Leninism while, at the same time, supporting the party dictatorship he created and, moreover, rationalising the utter lack of working class freedom and power under it. We will try to ...
City hall agreed and renamed it Heroes of the Revolution Street. But you can’t fool the people, and so the name “Victims of the Heroes of the Revolution” stuck to the street like glue. Old-timers still referred to it as they had in the old Soviet days. “Can you tell me how ...
“Revolution is immortal!” Source: Ivan Astashin (Facebook), 19 August 2024. Translated by the Russian Reader hecksinductionhour leftists, solidarity, war and peace, youth 2 Comments August 22, 2024 2 Minutes Russia’s Fascist Meltdown: The Cliff Notes Version Screenshot of Mediazona infogr...
Russians entered the province at the end of the 19th and in the early 20th centuries. A great number of émigrés arrived after the Bolshevik Revolution. Some of these stayed and became Chinese citizens, many of them women who married Chinese. The few remaining Russians… ...
In December 1905 when New York society leaders held a benefit for the aid of Jewish victims of the failed Russian revolution earlier in the year, Clemens shared the honor of headlining the event along with actress Sarah Bernhardt. However, his speech for the event was light and humorous and ...