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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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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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The Destruction of the Aral Sea
Once upon a time when I was a young man in 1960 there was a lake – one of the four largest bodies of fresh water on earth. It was so large it was called a “sea” – the Aral … Continue reading
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Tagged aralsea, corporate farming, cotton, ecodisaster, history, irrigation, kazakhstan, land exploitation, Ogallala aquifer, russia, Soviet Union, uzbekistan
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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
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Tagged education, history, illiteracy, krupskaya, Lenin, peasants, revolution, russia, Siberia, Soviet Union, Trotsky
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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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Victory Day – May 9, 1945
Soviet soldier waving the red banner over central Stalingrad – February 1943 May 9 is celebrated in Russia as Victory Day; the 70th anniversary of the of the Soviet Union’s victory over the Wehrmacht.. Four years earlier the greatest land struggle in … Continue reading
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Tagged history, Konstantin Siminov, Marshall Zhukov, Moscow, russia, Soviet Union, Stalingrad, V.E. Day, Victory Day, Wait for Me, world war II
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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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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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