Singing Themselves Free
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Anekdoty: Quiet Pessimism
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As the systemic crises of economic failures and political inefficiency continued from the ‘reforms’ of Khrushchev to the ‘restoration’ of … More
Kossuth Rising: Resurgent Nationalism and Counterrevolution.
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Following the death of Josef Stalin in March 1953, the member nations of the Warsaw Pact faced an existential crisis. … More
Collectivization or ‘Dekulakization’?
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One of the salient features of revolutionary movements is the need to appeal to natural conservatism in the rural working … More
The Betrayal in Kronstadt
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The sudden and brutal way in which the Bolsheviks responded to the demands and rebellion of the garrison of Kronstadt … More
Embarrassment on the World Stage: The Russo-Japanese War and the Hardening of Revolutionary Spirit.
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The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905, had the effect of accelerating the already revolutionary zeitgeist in Imperial Russia at the time. … More
Industrialization in a Rural Society
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The photo, Work at the Bakalskii Mine Pit, taken in 1910 by photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii depicts a Russian family engaged in … More
