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Vladimir Ulyanov,
China Miéville • October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
The rise of Muscovy to a pre-eminent position among the several Russian states was due in large measure to the opportunism of its princes, who made themselves the allies and collaborators of the steppe khanate.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
In order to carry out a struggle against bureaucracy, Lenin advocated the setting up of a “Commission on Workers and Peasants Inspection” (RABKRIN), as the highest arbiter and guardian of party morality and as a weapon against alien elements in the Soviet state apparatus. At the centre of RABKRIN, Lenin placed a man whom he respected for his... See more
Lenin's Last Struggle - Revolutionary Communists of America
Solzhenitsyn on the weakness of the Tsarist justice system. Only five people were executed in the course of seven assassination attempts on Alexander II. Lenin's brother was executed for attempting to assassinate Alexander III but Lenin was still allowed to train as a lawyer. https://t.co/BZfDaQYD4C
Un officier de rang plus élevé, qui avait commencé sa carrière dans le renseignement à Dresde, en Allemagne de l’Est, une fois rapatrié en catastrophe puisqu’il n’y avait plus d’Allemagne de l’Est se retrouvait sans emploi, sans logement de fonction, réduit à faire le taxi sauvage dans sa ville natale, Leningrad, en maudissant les « nouveaux
... See moreEmmanuel Carrère • Limonov (Fiction) (French Edition)
Stalin's adopted son - Artyom Sergeyev (on the right) near the monument to his father Fyodor Sergeyev (better known as "Comrade Artyom") in Artemovsk (modern Bakhmut), USSR, 1970s https://t.co/8H7rvl64vA
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