The Radical Hopes of the Russian Revolution

On: September 20, 2017

Lenin finally decided in September that if the Bolsheviks did not take power, the passionate radicalism of the masses, which had been building for months, would come to nothing. When he returned to Petrograd in early October, he sparked a furious debate on the question of the uprising, and theRead More →

Books: The Russian Revolution at 100

By: Robert H. Shaw

On: September 1, 2017

In: Russian revolution

Thirty years ago, I strolled through the aisles of an open-air book festival in Managua, Nicaragua, organized to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The revolution (often referred to as the October Revolution) culminated in early November 1917 and led to the creation of the Union of SovietRead More →

September 2017