Bolshevik Revolution

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• 6/30/2020
  

  Pawns of History: The Poetics of Russian Revolutionary Politics

  by Tim Brinkhof

  The repression of political dissent in Czarist Russia led many future revolutionaries to literature as a gateway to political thought; their poetic idealism may have made them both effective and dangerous.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  11-13-17
  

  The cautionary tale of the Bolshevik revolution

  by Niall Ferguson

  A century ago it was the West’s great blunder to think it would not matter if Lenin and his confederates took over the Russian Empire. Incredible as it may seem, I believe we are capable of repeating that catastrophic error.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  2-26-17
  

  Why Putin Isn’t Celebrating the Bolshevik Revolution

  by William Pomeranz

  Putin has already chosen what he needs from the Soviet past: great power status, control of the commanding heights of the economy, victory in World War II and national stability.