Singing Themselves Free

The theme of rising nationalist sentiment in the countries of the Soviet Bloc is repetitive. The rejuvenation of national symbols,…

Anekdoty: Quiet Pessimism

As the systemic crises of economic failures and political inefficiency continued from the ‘reforms’ of Khrushchev to the ‘restoration’ of…

Following the death of Josef Stalin in March 1953, the member nations of the Warsaw Pact faced an existential crisis.…

One of the salient features of revolutionary movements is the need to appeal to natural conservatism in the rural working…

The sudden and brutal way in which the Bolsheviks responded to the demands and rebellion of the garrison of Kronstadt…

The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905, had the effect of accelerating the already revolutionary zeitgeist in Imperial Russia at the time.…

The photo, Work at the Bakalskii Mine Pit, taken in 1910 by photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii depicts a Russian family engaged in…