Medvedev Warns Ruling Party to Avoid Communists’ Fate
YAKUTSK, April 2 (RIA Novosti) Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned his ruling United Russia party on Tuesday not to repeat the mistakes made by the Soviet Union’s Communist Party. “We do not aspire...
View ArticleInterfax: Russian Communists celebrate 1917 revolution, call for dismissal of...
(Interfax – November 7, 2013) The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) marked the anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution on 7 November with rallies in Moscow and other towns of Russia,...
View ArticleRussia’s Last Tsar Exhumed as Murder Case Reopened
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Vasily Kolotilov – September 24, 2015) Russian investigators on Wednesday exhumed the remains of Russia’s last tsar and his wife, who were slaughtered by the...
View ArticleIn the Flesh: Russian Scientists Work to Preserve Lenin’s Corpse
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Daria Litvinova – May 5, 2016) He lies in a glass sarcophagus. His eyes are closed, reddish beard and mustache trimmed, and his hands rest calmly on his thighs....
View ArticleBrexit: Russia’s national interest versus its nationalist interest
Subject: Brexit: Russia’s national interest versus its nationalist interest Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 13:27:00 -0400 From: Ira Straus (IRASTRAUS@aol.com) The argumentative thrust of Putin’s Russia is...
View ArticleThe Three Kinds of Stalinists in Putin’s Russia Don’t Include Any Real Ones,...
(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, October 10, 2016) Russians may say that they have a positive view of Stalin – according to polls, more than half now do – but, despite the Kremlin’s...
View ArticlePatriarch Kirill blames 1917 revolution on intelligentsia
MOSCOW. March 29 (Interfax) – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has put the main blame for the 1917 revolution on the intelligentsia. “What happened in the 20th century, that meat-grinder,...
View ArticleDeciphering a Revolution; ‘1917: Code of a Revolution’ is the first...
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Andrei Muchnik – March 31, 2017) In 2017, Russia marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most crucial episodes in its history – the October Revolution. And what...
View ArticleBridging the Red-White Divide Is a Home Run for Putin
(Kennan Institute – wilsoncenter.org/program/kennan-institute – Maxim Trudolyubov – May 30, 2017) Maxim Trudolyubov, Senior Fellow with the Kennan Institute and editor-at-large with Vedomosti, has been...
View ArticleNEWSLINK: “The Remains of the Romanovs; Nearly a century after Czar Nicholas...
“On July 17, 1918, as the White Army advanced toward Red-held territory around Yekaterinburg in Siberia, 12 armed Bolsheviks ushered a group of 11 exiles into a basement of a merchant’s mansion once...
View ArticleNEWSLINK: “‘We are nothing, let us be all.’ The century of revolution. The...
“… The ‘end of communism’ seemed to settle the great debate that opposed the main currents of the international left after the Russian Revolution, the defeat of one of the protagonists entailing the...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “No pomp as Russia revolution centenary nears”– AFP
“… Russia strives to strike an odd balance … remembering the uprising that brought about the Soviet Union … stopping short of romanticising regime change. … 1917 saw Tsar Nicholas II abdicate in March...
View ArticleInterfax: Kremlin had no plans for Russian Revolution centenary celebrations...
MOSCOW. Oct 25 (Interfax) – The Kremlin did not plan to celebrate the Russian Revolution’s centenary in the first place, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday. “The...
View ArticleRussia To Unveil Monument To Victims Of Political Repression
(Article ©2017 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – October 30, 2017 – also appeared at rferl.org/a/russia-stalin-putin-soviet-repression-remembrance-day-moscow/28823208.html)...
View ArticleOn Revolution Centenary, Perplexed Russians Ask, ‘Who Am I To Judge?’
(Article ©2017 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – Tom Balmforth, Robert Coalson – ST. PETERSBURG/MOSCOW – Nov. 5, 2017 – also appeared at...
View ArticlePavel Koshkin: “The Review on Zygar’s Book — The Empire Must Die”
Subject: the review on Zygar’s book — The Empire Must Die Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 From: Pavel Koshkin <pkoshkin.russia.direct@gmail.com> The Empire Must Die: Understanding Russia’s political...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “Russia Celebrates an Uncomfortable Centennial”– Stratfor.com
“The centennial anniversary of the launch of the Russian Revolution on Nov. 7 will serve as a haunting reminder for Russia’s current leaders that their power is finite. … a year after Russia observed...
View ArticleHow did 1917 change the west? Failed utopias lead to the death of idealism,...
(opendemocracy.net – Sam Greene – November 22, 2017) Samuel A. Greene is Reader in Russian Politics and Director of the Russia Institute at King’s College London Revolutions – and their centenaries –...
View ArticleJRL NEWSWATCH AUDIO: “In Russia, Scant Traces And Negative Memories Of A...
[Transcript, photos, original audio: npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/05/28/608455970/in-russia-scant-traces-and-negative-memories-of-a-century-old-u-s-intervention] “… civil war was raging across...
View ArticleLenin At 150: Even Without COVID-19, Russia Was Set To Snub The Soviet...
(Article text ©2020 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – Sergei Medvedev, Robert Coalson – MOSCOW, April 21, 2020 – article text also appeared at...
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