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Calling everyone scum and horrible people might evoke cheers and feet-stamping from the Bearsden Bolsheviks, but it merely deflects our gaze from… ...
But amidst the slogans and the shouting and the fist-clenching from these establishment figures, it’s Mr Kerr who finally gets to the root of the problem.
The Bolsheviks made great efforts to convince the syndicalists that their conception of an “active minority” was an underdeveloped form of the revolutionary party. Recruiting and integrating a ...
“Degenerate Art,” an exhibition at the Musée Picasso in Paris on the Nazis’ persecution of modern artists, is about culture wars and where they can lead.
Russia's “disastrous performance” in WWI contributed to the 1917 Revolution, followed by a Civil War between the “Reds” (Bolsheviks) and the “Whites” (anti-Bolshevik forces, including ...
Christmas trees were still under drastic Bolshevik ban as Christmas 1935 came to Russia, but just before New Year's Day the Kremlin's policy slued completely around. Excitedly the word ...
The dust of World War I had barely settled when the citizens of the newly born Second Polish Republic had to take up arms in the war against the Soviets. It turned out to be a test not only of the ...
At the beginning of 1918, the Bolsheviks, who soon began calling themselves Communists, were the nominal rulers of a bankrupt realm, its military drained by desertions and its economy in shambles.
How did the famous slogans first come about, and where have they come from? Inspiring and controversial, we explain the history of slogans that have endured in India’s politics.