by Bruce Thornton via Front Page Magazine Online
All it took to transform Vladimir Putin from a candidate for a foreign policy “reset” into a global villain was a change in presidents.
featuring Stephen Kotkin via The Guardian
One hundred years after the Bolshevik revolt, books by Masha Gessen, Serhii Plokhy, Yuri Slezkine and Stephen Kotkin shed light on Soviet socialism’s birth and death.
quoting Stephen Kotkin via The University of Melbourne
One hundred years after Red October, when Vladimir Lenin and his Bolsheviks overthrew the Tsarist autocracy, the revolution is still a difficult subject for modern Russia.
mentioning Robert Service via Dan's Papers
One hundred years ago today—November 7, 1917—what began as a celebration of International Women’s Day six months earlier culminated in the radical left government, led by Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik Party, taking complete power over the vast Russian Empire, nearly one-sixth of all the earth’s land, controlled for three centuries by the Romanov dynasty. Dozens of books have been published about the Russian Revolution this year in effort to explain the intricate and complex events of 1917. We’ve put together a short list of our favorites.
By Clifford D. May, The Washington Times: “My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually.”
featuring Stephen Kotkin via The Daily Princetonian