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Kronstadt and the End of the Revolution – from the History Archive
A Re-Post from March 2015 It was the first weeks of March, 1921 in the new Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Kronstadt was and still is a naval fortress on an island in the Gulf of Finland. It served … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Berkman, anarchists, emma goldman, end of the revolution, history, Kronstadt demands, Kronstadt revolt, Kronstadt sailors, Lenin, Marshal Turkachevsky, New Economic Polity, russia, Russian civil war, Soviet Union, Stephan Petrichenko, syndicalists, Trotsky, War Communism
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Dancing in the Eye of the Storm – From the Archives – 2014
Tired of my old poetry? How about some history with pictures! Alexander Ulyanov – executed by Tsar Alexander III in 1887 Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by an organization known as The People’s Will. Instead of hoped … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged czarist Russia, deaf to the people, history, Lenin, Medieval Ball. aristocracy, Nicholas II, oppression, Prince Yusupov, revolution, russian history
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Kronstadt and the End of the Revolution
A Re-Post from March 2015 It was the first weeks of March, 1921 in the new Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Kronstadt was and still is a naval fortress on an island in the Gulf of Finland. It served … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged Alexander Berkman, anarchists, emma goldman, end of the revolution, history, Kronstadt demands, Kronstadt revolt, Kronstadt sailors, Lenin, Marshal Turkachevsky, New Economic Polity, russia, Russian civil war, Soviet Union, Stephan Petrichenko, syndicalists, Trotsky, War Communism
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Two Bullets for Lenin
Fanya Kaplan was a poor peasant girl born in Tsarist Russia on February 10,1890. She never went to school; what education she received she got at home. Her four brothers and two sisters lived the same peasant life. And she … Continue reading
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Tagged attempted assasination, baltic fleet, bolsheviks, fanya kaplan, history, kronstadt, Lenin, red terror, rssian revolution, socialsit revolutionaries, Trotsky
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Lenin’s Wife
Everyone knows of Lenin. His body is still on display in the great Kremlin square, once known as Red Square, for those with a bit of ghoulishness in their souls to see. His name and statues have been taken down … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged education, history, illiteracy, krupskaya, Lenin, peasants, revolution, russia, Siberia, Soviet Union, Trotsky
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Dancing in the Eye of the Storm – a Re-Post
A re-post from last Halloween Alexander Ulyanov – executed by Tsar Alexander III in 1887 Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by an organization known as The People’s Will. Instead of hoped for reforms his successor Alexander III imposed … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged czarist Russia, deaf to the people, history, Lenin, Medieval Ball. aristocracy, Nicholas II, oppression, Prince Yusupov, revolution, russian history
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The “Red Years” and the Murder of Matteotti
A re-post from a year and a half ago Giacomo Matteotti Italy was at war – the First World War. By 1918 Italy had been at war for more than three grueling years. By the end of the war, Italy would … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, communists, fascists, Fiat, history, industrialists, Italian Confederation of Industry, Italy, Lenin, Matteotti, murder, Mussolini, Olivetti, red years, socialists, Soviet Union, Trotsky, world war I
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Kronstadt and the End of the Revolution
It was the first weeks of March, 1921 in the new Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Kronstadt was and still is a naval fortress on an island in the Gulf of Finland. It served as headquarters of Russia’s Baltic … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged Alexander Berkman, anarchists, emma goldman, end of the revolution, history, Kronstadt demands, Kronstadt revolt, Kronstadt sailors, Lenin, Marshal Turkachevsky, New Economic Polity, russia, Russian civil war, Soviet Union, Stephan Petrichenko, syndicalists, Trotsky, War Communism
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Dancing in the Eye of the Storm
Originally posted several years ago Alexander Ulyanov – executed by Tsar Alexander III in 1887 Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by an organization known as The People’s Will. Instead of hoped for reforms his successor Alexander III imposed … Continue reading
The River
Vladimir sat on the bank of the river remembering his brother Alexandre. He had dreamed the night before, that they were fishing together on the far away Volga. It was officially Spring, yet winter held on here in eastern Siberia. … Continue reading
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