James Krenov, 88, cabinetmaker, philosopher Sep 20, 2009
His parents - not quite aristocracy, but people who didn t have to work, he said in a 2004 oral history for the Smithsonian Institution - had fled St. Petersburg during the Russian Revolution. The family later made their way via Shanghai to Alaska, where Mr. Krenov s parents became teachers at an Inuit village north of Anchorage. (Boston Globe)
Britain: Things Fall Apart Sep 20, 2009
When they call themselves Social Democrats, they mean it within the understanding of the Russian Revolution, not within the understanding of almost all English-speaking people, at least in these islands and in the Old Commonwealth. They even sang not The Red Flag (the traditional Labour anthem often heard at funerals or other events graced by union banners depicting Biblical scenes and characters), but The Internationale, sometime National Anthem of the Soviet Union, at the funerals of two... (The American Conservative)
Swiss entrepreneurs revive a Russian tradition Sep 18, 2009
After the Russian revolution of 1917 most of those who could do so returned home, but since the end of the Cold War at the beginning of the 1990s the Swiss have started to move back ... When the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917, there were about 8,000 Swiss living in Russia, about half of them businessmen and teachers. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
History, again Sep 13, 2009
One of the more intriguing notions to emerge from these documents is Mitterand's speculation that a unified Germany might end up throwing Russia into an alliance with its old World War II (and, before the Russian revolution, its old World War I) partners, Britain and France. For anything else you might say about Mitterand, one of the most colorful figures of the 20th century, do not mark him down for a failure of the imagination. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
GROWING CONTROVERSY OVER OPERATION TO FREE NY TIMES REPORTER IN AFGHANISTAN... Sep 11, 2009
Had the Interview been Published, the World's Nations would have taken steps to prevent Germany from accumulating what it needed to carry out such a Conquest, and WWI would not have occurred, with all the bad consequences; the Russian Revolution and the subsequent Marxist-Leninist Soviet Putsch, and the rise of Nazism. Had the NYTimes, the Anti-Defamation League, and the ACLU, all joined together in a vigorous protest of Adolph Hitler's possible coming to power, who had publically avowed to... (The Drudge Report)
Obama speech hits a nerve Sep 9, 2009
"I know a lot of people do not understand what is wrong with that but we are familiar with the Russian revolution, the Chinese revolution, the uprising in Europe from Hitler, the uprisings in Cuba and Venezuela: The children in school are asked to pledge allegiance to their leader. And we think that's wrong," she said. She said she is not against the president giving a speech. (Juneau Empire)
City under siege Sep 6, 2009
The police strike occurred in chaotic times, following the first world war and the Russian Revolution, and as workers in factories across the country were rising up. Frightened Boston residents accused the striking police of bolshevism. (Boston Globe)
Movies about radicals have not always had a radical effect on viewers Sep 6, 2009
On the one hand, there is the sweeping real-life love story of journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) and his future wife, Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), as the Russian Revolution swirls around them. The film s so big-budget tame that Beatty, who also directed, screened it at the White House for an approving Ronald Reagan. (Boston Globe)
Jon WertheimINSIDE TENNIS Sep 3, 2009
(And if you look at the girls' junior rankings, the "Russian Revolution" is likely a one-generation phenomenon. No question, the American influence has fallen off from its peak. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- Tennis)
Putin Slams West Before WWII Anniversary Sep 1, 2009
One better than Putin's re-write of History is that had the ALLIES SUCCEEDED in WWI to have properly suppressed the Russian Revolution by Supporting the White Russians, the Crown. along the Trans-Siberian Railway. (CBS News -- World)
Anna Akhmatova Brief Bio and Works Aug 20, 2009
However, the Russian Revolution of 1917 which brought communists to power, had a dramatic effect on her life ... Effect of Russian Revolution. (Suite101.com)
Iron curtain-raisers Aug 14, 2009
While many films have made heroes of communist leaders of the Russian revolution, Admiral gives an opposite perspective. Its director, Andrei Kravchuk, interviewed through an interpreter, says the idea sparked considerable controversy in Russia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Theater review: 'Farm' a hip-hop remix Aug 12, 2009
No knowledge of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution is required, though, just as with the book, familiarity with Stalin's rise and Trotsky's fate can add to the pleasure. However great his fury at Stalin's perversion of socialism, Orwell didn't let that get in the way of creating a timeless fable. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Communists Defeated in Moldova Election Aug 1, 2009
Ninety-two years after the Russian Revolution and 20 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe's last Soviet-style government is finally on its way out. In Moldova this week, four months after popular upheaval, the Communist Party accepted defeat in a national election. (Time.com)
'Sashenka' sheds light on Stalinist heartache- Jul 24, 2009
In Simon Montefiores Sashenka, readers are exposed to a touching tale of a young girl devoted to the Bolshevik cause and watching the Russian Revolution of 1917 with an impassioned and hopeful heart for the Communist regime to come. Twenty-some years later, Sashenka is married to a rising star in the party with two children, two homes and complete happiness. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
WHITTAKER: Taking time to nurture the spiritual side Jul 23, 2009
Immediately after the Russian revolution, the Soviet government in its attempt to eradicate the power of the Russian Orthodox Church and impose official atheism decided to abolish Sunday as a day of rest. Yet it quickly became apparent that workers needed a regular day of rest; without it, their productivity and health declined. (Holliston Tab, MA)
Analysis: Sotomayor Stays True to Herself Jul 18, 2009
If you were not so ignorant, you'd know there is no real communism anywhere in the world and hasn't been since shortly after the 1917 Russian revolution. They are all totalitarian dictatorships, such as Bush hope to install in the USA. They are not really different from the Nazis or the current military dictatorship in Figi. (CBS News)
Vera G. Partin Jul 15, 2009
Her parents were Gustin and Ludmilla Bogodoohoff of Russia, they fled to China during the Russian revolution in the early 1900s. Vera was born in Manchuria, China. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Comparing the French and American R... Jul 13, 2009
Unlike the French Revolution or, for that matter, the 1917 Russian Revolution, it was not a social revolution ... Like the later Russian Revolution, the French Revolution was both political and social. (Suite101.com)
The Reign of Terror in the French R... Jul 3, 2009
Similar patterns would be seen in the 20th Century after the 1917 Russian Revolution as well as the Spanish Civil War. In Nazi Germany, Hitler also employed similar tactics to consolidate power. (Suite101.com)
CRITICS' PICKS Jun 28, 2009
Rounding out the Barrymore package are Alan Crosland's costume drama "The Beloved Rogue" (1927) and Sam Taylor's Russian Revolution epic "Tempest" (1928). V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post; vam@nypost. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Woodrow Wilson and Foreign Policy Jun 25, 2009
Attempting to quell the mounting revolutionary upheaval being stirred up in Cuba by the Russian Revolution and in order to protect U.S. interests, Wilson ordered the occupation of Cuba in 1917. It lasted until 1923. (Suite101.com)
Group of Two isthe wrong number Jun 19, 2009
Soon after the Russian Revolution, on July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and all members of the imperial family were executed by Soviet revolutionaries at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. US spy plane U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down in 1960 over Yekaterinburg. (Asia Times Online)
A higher level Jun 5, 2009
Backwater Although most of them realised that it was not always possible to emulate the conditions of the Russian revolution in such a relative political backwater as York, they still knew there must be more important political matters on hand than the manner in which a children's slide was rendered unusable by the rusty state of its conjoining panels. After my report I was told firmly that I must return to the tenants' association and try yet again to raise their consciousnesses by at least one... (BBC News -- UK)
Selected Portraits by Ilya Repin May 31, 2009
Unfortunately, following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Andreyev went to Finland in exile and never quite recaptured his earlier creative equilibrium. He was not a follower of the new order and instead spent his final years in angry anguish over what he considered to be the failures of the Bolshevik movement. (Suite101.com)
Supreme Court choice draws strong reactions among local observers May 29, 2009
RPS wrote on May 28, 2009 3:11 PM:" yeah the revolution happened in november but one not in line with the constitution (not that that's been important to a president, congress, or supreme court in the last 70 years anyway) and instead probably more in line with the russian revolution of 1917. ". (return of) joe wrote on May 28, 2009 3:26 PM:" think..." So Joe believing in the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights is now a bad thing. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
How Putin Is Snookering Obama May 27, 2009
You can look back to as far as 1920, when Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz of The New Republic picked through the New York Times' coverage of the Russian Revolution and found articles riddled with ludicrous predictions of the Bolshevik regime's imminent collapse. "The news about Russia is a case of seeing not what was, but what men wished to see," they concluded. (Slate)
Russian Giant May 25, 2009
The Red Wheel tells the story of the people and events responsible for the Russian revolution. He was in his seventies when he finally completed it (though not all of it has been translated into English). (The American Conservative)
Rwanda: Some Things We Know About Genocide May 23, 2009
My longstanding interest in the way Joseph Stalin had betrayed the Russian Revolution introduced me to the famine in the Ukraine, but once again the issue of genocide was marginal at best. Despite perpetually trying to keep abreast of African matters, I had never heard a word about the anti-Tutsi pogroms unleashed by the new Hutu rulers of Rwanda in the 1960s, and certainly knew nothing whatsoever about the vast massacre in 1972 of educated Hutu by the Tutsi soldiers who ran Burundi, which some... (allAfrica.com)
Obama To Revive Guantanamo Tribunals May 15, 2009
The younger generation who is being recruited now has no recollection of Nazi Germany or the Russian Revolution or any other total take-over by a totalitarian government & cannot even imagine it. Funny that he reverses his campaign promises by saying he "didn't know" even though the info was out there at the time. (CBS News)
Ten Books You Shouldn't Read Apr 14, 2009
And it led to the Russian Revolution. And the harsh restitution payments led to the rise of Hitler and the rest is -- as they say -- history. (Slate)
Setting Up a School Speakers Bureau Apr 14, 2009
One successful teacher invited a professor of Russian History who had spent long periods in Russia to come and talk about the Russian Revolution. The relationship lasted for several years and the professor was clearly eager to share with interested high school students. (Suite101.com)
BOTSWANA: Less development revenue as diamonds lose their shine Apr 4, 2009
Such sensitivities were starkly illustrated in the immediate aftermath of the 1917 Russian revolution. The Bolsheviks threatened to sell the Tsar's diamonds, thereby flooding the market, which sowed panic in the industry. (AlertNet)
Bomb blows backside off Lenin statue Apr 2, 2009
St Petersburg was the cradle of the Russian Revolution and was renamed Leningrad after Lenin's death in 1924. Lenin's embalmed body remains on display in a mausoleum in Moscow. (BBC News -- Europe)
Ask the Experts: Can someone live to be a supercentenarian? Apr 2, 2009
(To add perspective, if Dosova's story is true, she was pushing 40 during the 1917 Russian Revolution and when World War I ended in 1918, and she was born the same year as and Joseph Stalin. . (Scientific American)
The One Thing Mar 28, 2009
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social CatastropheBy Robert GellatelyFrom the Publisher:A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War. In Lenin, Stalin and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the. (Fox News)
A sturdier Russia beckons its children home Mar 22, 2009
Their story is one of the last unfinished chapters of the Russian Revolution, and it speaks to the changes in Russia in the post-Soviet era. Even with the global financial crisis, Russia is more stable and prosperous than at any other time in its history, and Reutov said that only now was his community confident enough in the country's future. (International Herald Tribune)
Somalia: Nation's Contending Islamic Ideologies [analysis] Mar 22, 2009
Although the analogy is only suggestive and speculative, it would be wise to keep in mind that Lenin's Bolsheviks prevailed over the populist and nationalist Social Revolutionaries, and the reformist Mensheviks in the Russian Revolution. Dr. Michael A. Weinstein is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. (allAfrica.com)
Death Lessons Mar 19, 2009
My father began his story as a miracle child born in America (the ultimate land of new life) after his 48-year-old mother arrived from Ukraine and reunited with her 50-year-old husband following a ten year separation (and the death of six of their children during the nightmare years of World War I and the Russian Revolution). My grandmother assumed she was much too old to start over with a new U.S.-born child, but then her name was Sarah and her precocious baby seemed from the... (Townhall.com)
The Bronze Soldier of Tallinn Mar 12, 2009
As part of Old Russia for more than two hundred years the country had broken away after the Tsar was deposed in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and formed an independent state. In 1939, after a scant generation of freedom the Soviet Union annexed the tiny country along with its Baltic neighbors Lithuania and Latvia. (Suite101.com)
Obama's Ideological Father Mar 9, 2009
Since this was four years after the Russian Revolution, Gramsci assumed Italians would welcome a Bolshevik convulsion of their own. But it didn t happen. (Human Events Online)
David Brooks: White House response Mar 7, 2009
It's not the Russian Revolution. Second, they argue, the Obama administration will not usher in an era of big government. (International Herald Tribune)
Danquah-Busia Dinosaur 111, The Volta virus and Confusion Feb 20, 2009
Socialist-revolutionary leader Victor Chernov was elected President of a Russian republic and the next day, the Bolsheviks dissolved the Constituent Assembly The Bolshevik Russian Revolution of October 1917 engendered Communist parties worldwide, and their concomitant revolutions of 1917-23 Few Communists doubted that the Russian success of socialism depended upon successful, working-class socialist revolutions effected in developed capitalist-economy countries In 1919, Lenin and Trotsky... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Finding Travesties in the Stoppard archives Feb 19, 2009
(To give you a taste of the pastiche, Lenin, still stinging from crushed 1905 Russian revolution, proclaims: "To lose one revolution may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.") Mixed into Tom's foolery is a serious debate about art and revolution and the relationship between the two a subject Stoppard has returned to time and time again, most recently in 2006's Rock 'n' Roll. With its swirl of inside literary jokes and heady mix of fact, fiction and stylistic mayhem,... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Editorial: About words and manners Feb 8, 2009
"The socially libertarian enlightenment of the Russian revolution died when Stalin came to power. Stalin persecuted gays starting in 1930s. Stalin's decree of December 17, 1933 and the legislation of March 7, 1934 criminalized homosexuality. Article 121 of the criminal code called for up to 9 years of imprisonment for consenting adults. Stalin even intervened when USSR Constitution drawn up to make sure gays received harsh penalties once again. To the Stalinists, homosexuality was a sign of the... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
A revolutionary evening Feb 8, 2009
"Russian Revolution" What: Juneau Symphony winter concert Where: Juneau-Douglas High School auditorium ... The piece, reportedly first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic in 1937 to an ovation of 40 minutes, will highlight the Juneau Symphony's winter concert titled "Russian Revolution" this weekend. (Juneau Empire)
The communist touch Feb 8, 2009
The show explores their role in defining Constructivism in the years after the Russian Revolution, when politically engaged artists considered it their duty to build a better way of life. Applying their artistic skills to industrial production, they developed "new things for the new life." During the early 1920s, Rodchenko and Popova, who were originally painters, designed posters, magazines, books, ceramics, textiles and furniture, as well as film titles and theater sets. (International Herald Tribune)
