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.
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