" Privately, Palmer suggested that Post was "a Bolshevik himself.
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The curators contend that the (Bolshevik) Red Army — with its recruitment posters that point at you to create a sense of urgency and necessary sacrifice — propagandized better than the (anti-Bolshevik) White Army.
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It's all so cool, so Bolshevik, so 1917, so red.
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This Bolshevik Revolution consigned the February Revolution to historical oblivion.
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Lenin, moreover, had accepted the kaiser's money — "German gold" — to help finance Bolshevik propaganda and amplify his strident appeals against the provisional government and anyone, Bolshevik or otherwise, who thought of cooperating with it.
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""Not Marxist, Bolshevik, but born of the same spirit, neo-Marxist.
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"I don't think she's an actual Bolshevik, old love," he replies.
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Yes, Stalin "did in" 10 times more than the First Bolshevik.
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Bolshevik agitators among the troops at the front assailed his vacillations.
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Dan, the user looking for a Bolshevik, messaged five possible dates.
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Nye Bevan was nicknamed the "Bollinger Bolshevik" and Roy Jenkins "Old Beaujolais".
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The scene is meant to recreate gruesome moments from the Bolshevik Revolution.
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In July, anti-Bolshevik forces marched toward Yekaterinburg to rescue the Romanovs.
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The Bolshevik leader had stood in this courtyard for nearly 100 years.
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Many of the Bolshevik leaders, including Lenin, were in exile in Europe.
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" Dan (@redyentacompat1) is searching for "today's version of a handsome Bolshevik revolutionary.
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The statue is of Yakov Sverdlov, a local Bolshevik commander, not Lenin.
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The 2628th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, which is marked on Nov.
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We've seen this play before after the Bolshevik revolution 101 years ago.
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Russia's elite is immersed in discussions about the lessons of the Bolshevik revolution.
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For example, Hitler would talk about Bolshevik Jews, and say they were communists.
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The GRU was founded as the Registration Directorate in 1918 after the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Whether the Conservative Party could survive such a Bolshevik Brexit is another matter altogether.
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A century ago the Bolshevik revolution was seen as an endorsement of Marx's determinism.
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The film's chief villain was a Bolshevik labor organizer who tried to get factory
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Still, the Bolshevik government spared no resources when it came to propaganda and repression.
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Two rival Communist parties each promised to reproduce on American soil the Bolshevik takeover.
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Once in Moscow, he joined a socialist discussion circle, and ultimately the Bolshevik party.
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Becoming a Bolshevik meant joining a band of brothers, aided by a few sisters.
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He sees the Bolshevik revolutionaries as forerunners to those who might challenge his power today.
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The author, John Reed, was an American who made no secret of his Bolshevik sympathies.
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Scores of foreign and Russian dignitaries had pleaded with the Bolshevik government for their release.
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Four years later, after the Bolshevik Revolution, Russian ballet became part of the Communist state.
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If the maverick Bolshevik had been German, the authorities would have tossed him in jail.
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Why a successful Bolshevik Revolution a couple years before in Russia but not in Germany?
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The second, led by Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, ousted the provisional government.
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The Democratic majority in the Senate used a special subcommittee to emphasize Bolshevik-German ties.
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Next year is the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution that brought Lenin to power.
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How, then, should we understand the relationship between Russian modernist art and the 21907 Bolshevik Revolution?
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Russian leaders no longer venerate Lenin of the Bolshevik revolution, but they embrace the Soviet legacy.
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YACOV ARNOPOLINLondon The Bolshevik revolution was seen by radicals as an endorsement of Marx's dialectical materialism.
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This puncturing of the U.S.S.R.'s infallibility was heartbreaking to the generation of original Bolshevik revolutionaries.
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Finland celebrates its hundred years of independence next year, also the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution.
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To fully understand the Bolshevik Revolution, one must also appreciate the long trajectory of Russian history.
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After the 21922 Bolshevik Revolution, she and her colleagues began to produce applied and functional art.
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Her mother, Tatiana Yakovleva, was a Russian whose family fled to Paris after the Bolshevik Revolution.
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As Petrograd descended into chaos, government thugs ransacked the office that produced the Bolshevik newspaper, Pravda.
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This move constituted a threat to the Bolshevik government and violated Wilson's promise of self-determination.
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Hundreds of black Americans moved to the Soviet Union to work following the Bolshevik Revolution in 21976.
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During the Bolshevik revolution, about 12 members of the extended Romanov clan were able to escape Russia.
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Now, 100 years after the Bolshevik revolution, his plan has been realised in Britain—free of charge.
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Her mother, an old Bolshevik, kept Stalin's portrait on the wall even after Miagkova's execution in 1937.
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Writing in 1912, Russian artists could not imagine that Nekto 1917 would turn into a Bolshevik revolution.
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"Was Bolshevik 'class murder' not the logical and factual predecessor to the Nazi 'racial murder'?" he continued.
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The United States declared war on Germany in April, 1917; the Bolshevik Revolution swept Russia that November.
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Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and a powerful political icon throughout the USSR.
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In that sense, it borrows heavily from another Bolshevik-inspired tropical revolution: Cuba's famous 153 revolutionary offensive.
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Behind this lay the question of the institutionalization of violence in Bolshevik culture and the Soviet state.
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At the end of the evening, they turn Bolshevik, storm Tolstoy's novel and take its protagonists hostage.
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In Europe, they joined thousands of Russian émigrés driven out of their land by the Bolshevik terror.
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This image from the 49th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution shows typical Soviet propaganda in Red Square.
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Mr Isserman contends that DSA members "are not utopian, and we certainly don't believe in Bolshevik-style revolution".
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Rather than find a way to her hotel, she stumbles upon an encampment of supposedly fictional Bolshevik soldiers.
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The other segment of Jews, the Ashkenazi, live mostly in Baku and arrived fleeing Tsarist and Bolshevik pogroms.
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The exhibition stops short of the Bolshevik Revolution and the avant-garde, well-trodden territory in the West.
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His critics, led by Trotsky, never tired of reminding him of his secondary role in the Bolshevik Revolution.
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"The October seizure of power was not the end of the Bolshevik Revolution but the beginning," she writes.
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The myth goes that in the years after the Bolshevik revolution, bland socialist realism stomped on the avant-garde.
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If the Bolshevik Revolution was a putsch by fanatics, then what is Lenin's unburied corpse doing in Red Square?
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He presented the Bolshevik Party as a conspiratorial, deeply unpopular clique rather than the spearhead of a mass movement.
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The fact that their families were punished for unexplained reasons does not seem to have diminished their Bolshevik orthodoxy.
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The Bolshevik government in 21919 had a feeble hold on Russia, and it faced military challenge on all sides.
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He detailed this new approach in his "April Theses," but had to fight hard to persuade the Bolshevik party.
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Living as a Bolshevik meant favoring some brothers over others and loving some sisters as much as the revolution.
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Could the newly published books on the Bolshevik Revolution help us make sense of President Trump's Russia-centered scandals?
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The Bolshevik Revolution ousted him in October (November, New Style) 1917, resulting in a Communist government under Vladimir Lenin.
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Semenov, a former secret service agent in the provisional government, told Sisson he lifted the papers from Bolshevik headquarters.
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But the fake documents legitimized intervention by suggesting that the Bolshevik stooges were not representative of the Russian people.
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The country is to mark the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution in 2017, and not all the portents are good.
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The US media are "enemies of the people" -- ironically, a phrase used from the earliest days of the Bolshevik revolution.
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The workaholic Lenin imposed strict Bolshevik discipline, including a sleep rota and two classes of tickets for the only lavatory.
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Remember also that the great looming menace in the early and midcentury period wasn't Islamic jihadism but the Bolshevik Revolution.
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In January, Netanyahu described the media as "left-wing" and "Bolshevik" and said they were out to bring him down.
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"The Bolshevik putsch could have been prevented by a pair of bullets," Kotkin writes: one each for Lenin and Trotsky.
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In January, he described the media as "left-wing" and "Bolshevik" and said they were out to bring him down.
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He recounts how he convinced Hitler that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was connected to a global conspiracy by Jews.
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Ms. Gordon, taking a leaf out of her Bolshevik foresisters' playbook, has been championing the rights of women and children.
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Whether due more to a loss of nerve than bad planning, the mobs dissipated and the Bolshevik leaders were arrested.
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At the end of 1917, Germany's foreign minister, Richard von Kühlmann, gloated about his country's role in November's Bolshevik coup.
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Opponents say it besmirches the reputation of the tzar, who was killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries and is widely revered in Russia.
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The Bolshevik revolution led to civil war and later to the terror of Joseph Stalin, whose legacy remains controversial in Russia.
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The Bolshevik Revolution seemed to confirm this in 1917, creating a home for "actually existing socialism" in a hostile capitalist world.
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Stalin had worked with gangsters before the revolution, organizing bank raids and even piracy to raise money for the Bolshevik revolutionaries.
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In a characteristic scene, Ballerina's conflicted relationship with Commissar is amplified by 12 Bolshevik soldiers molesting 12 other female ballet dancers.
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Striking as the Bolshevik reversal was in July 1917, the provisional government's response to the failed coup was even more stunning.
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Murray Polner was born on May 15, 1928, in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrants who had fled Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution.
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ALTHOUGH it marks the centenary of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, the true inspiration for the Royal Academy's new exhibition is 1932.
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In the 1920s, after the Russian Revolution, anti-Bolshevik Russians who had emigrated to the United States began vacationing in Sea Cliff.
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In November, the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power in a bloodless revolution, making Russia the world's first Communist nation.
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The crisis of the 1930s ended happily for liberalism because a reactionary imperialist withstood Adolf Hitler and a revolutionary Bolshevik crushed him.
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Louis Cartier designed the prototype in 20123, the year the United States entered World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution roiled Russia.
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Eight months later, Lenin and his marginal Bolshevik faction engineered a remarkable coup that gave rise to the world's first communist state.
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GRU, whose emblem features a bat hovering above the globe, was founded as the Registration Directorate in 1918 after the Bolshevik Revolution.
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This tension takes us to our trip to 1918, when Mallory attempts to travel back in time and save Anastasia from Bolshevik execution.
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The last time Russia had such a role in crystallising anti-establishment ideas was in the 1920s and 1930s, after the Bolshevik revolution.
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In 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were assassinated by their Bolshevik captors, marking the end of a 300-year imperial dynasty.
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The wave of cinematic arrests—many carried out at night—have prompted comparisons to the purges of the Bolshevik party in the 1930s.
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They are dressed in full Bolshevik uniforms, down to the guns, and one of them (Morten Suurballe) slaps Olivia hard across the face.
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D. W. Griffith directed the Gish sisters in his anti-Bolshevik "Orphans of the Storm" on his 14-acre movie set in Mamaroneck.
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When Arkady subsequently tries to use her as a hostage in his criminal dealings, Marina's horrid father outs her as a Bolshevik spy.
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Working for the commissariat in 19213 and 21921, however, Ivanov managed to promote his pagan theatrical utopia under an atheistic Bolshevik banner, too.
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Nikolai Bukharin, the veteran Bolshevik and editor of Pravda, became one of those enemies: arrested in February 1937 and executed in March 1938.
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Buried among all this are abundant references — some coded, some more obvious — to the kinds of music Nazi Germany forbade, Jewish to Bolshevik.
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When they received news of the Bolshevik takeover in St. Petersburg, they celebrated by singing and banging tin cups on their cell bars.
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The book tells the story of a Russian count who is sentenced to house arrest in Moscow's Metropol Hotel following the Bolshevik Revolution.
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They also brought about disastrous consequences for Russia herself, from territorial dismemberment in 1918 to decades of agony under the suffocating Bolshevik dictatorship.
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Indeed, the first senior defector from the new Bolshevik state, Boris Bajanov, fled to British India in 1928 with assassins on his tail.
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After accepting a humiliating treaty imposed by the Germans, Russia was soon embroiled in a civil war more bloody and brutal than even World War I. By its end, the Bolshevik government, launched as a workers' democracy, was effectively a dictatorship, enabling the ascendancy of a previously obscure Bolshevik, Joseph Stalin, who would become one of the great tyrants of history.
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His Bolshevik comrades disposed of the evidence, saving him from execution, but he was sentenced to three months in solitary confinement for his activism.
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If you really, really want to understand the historical context for the Bolshevik revolution, we recommend a college course — or at least a podcast.
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Six months later, in October, Bolshevik workers, soldiers, and sailors seized the central telegraph and the bridges, arrested the government, and declared Soviet power.
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Maxim Gorky, a Bolshevik writer who had once demonised American capitalism, appealed to "all honest European and American people" to "give bread and medicine".
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Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, more than a million Russian citizens were plunged into this state for months or years at a time.
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His ideal of autonomism was already perverted by Birobidzhan because he didn't think that Jews had any way of benefiting from the Bolshevik state.
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He was born in Russia, and his family fled to Germany, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the United States after the Bolshevik Revolution in 22018.
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Bolshevik leaders subliminally grasped the contradiction almost at once; and their rankly Procrustean answer was to leave the program untouched and change human nature.
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That is why it is victory against Germany in 1945, not the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 that is the founding myth of Putinist Russia.
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The czar, Mr. Uchitel said, became a saint for his martyr's death before a Bolshevik firing squad, not for how he lived his life.
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The Bolshevik Revolution of 21924 brought a civil war to Russia — a form of conflict that was repeated on a smaller scale across Europe.
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There were more important things to think about, like the end of the American century in 2017, one hundred years after the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Territories well to the west of the city were back in Bolshevik hands, and Moscow had likewise escaped capture by armies from the south.
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A handful of the most prominent Bolshevik enthusiasts were women, including the dancer Isadora Duncan and Gerda Lerner, a later pioneer of women's history.
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The count's sedate life provides an ironic counterpoint to the grim doings of Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, most of which occur out of sight.
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They were put up at the Hotel Metropol, which once housed part of the Bolshevik government, and where the first Soviet constitution was drafted.
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The archives have collected declassified images that were taken at ceremonies marking national holidays like May Day and the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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The once lavish palace, set in parkland, served as a residence for Russia's imperial Romanov dynasty before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and was later nationalized.
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It shares a long border with Russia, which ruled it for more than a century until the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, when Finland won its independence.
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The two dissenters published their reactions in a non-Bolshevik newspaper, alerting the entire city to the plan, and unintentionally enhancing the atmosphere of inevitability.
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He's not fussy about the design of the centennial arch with which he wants to mark the Polish victory over the Bolshevik armies in 1920.
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A Bolshevik guard told the Tsar he would be executed, Nicholas reflexively turned toward his children and was quickly shot, point blank, in the head.
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But after the Bolshevik Revolution, he led independent Finland's army during World War II, when Finland was allied with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union.
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He shed new and harsh light on the Bolshevik campaign against the peasantry, which, he argued, Lenin had sought to destroy as a reactionary class.
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His dissertation, on Bolshevik nationality theory, became the basis of his first book, "The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923" (1954).
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"Speakers denounced Franklin Rosenfeld" — yes, Rosenfeld; subtle these people were not — "and the Jewish Communist conspiracy to turn America into 'a bolshevik paradise,'" Strausbaugh writes.
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The duchess is a resident of Spain who claims to be the rightful heir to the crown that disappeared from Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution.
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In the same year, Vladimir Mayakovsky, the Futurist poet who, at 21991, had joined the forerunner of the Bolshevik party, declared war on the past.
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The Bolshevik vision of world revolution may now seem a utopian fantasy, but it appeared much more plausible in the aftermath of the Great War.
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Life in the "House of Socialism" was about the confident expectation of the inevitable, the knowing smile of a pregnant woman — the Bolshevik Augustinian Age.
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In a shortsighted move, Kerensky allowed the Bolshevik military organization to rearm, thus acquiring the weapons they would use to oust him two months later.
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Rather than obstructing the Bolshevik takeover, the strike ended up facilitating it, spurring the Bolsheviks to build parallel organs of governance dedicated to revolutionary goals.
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A young agent of British intelligence named Somerset Maugham arrives with $21,000 in his pocket with an equally hopeless brief to prevent the Bolshevik Revolution.
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After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Vladimir Lenin established a secret police service called the Cheka to be his main weapon of repression and terror.
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A group of Soviet engineers and economists were accused of forming the "Industrial Party", which in collusion with France had supposedly plotted against the Bolshevik government.
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To get to our apartment, we entered through a door that used to be for servants only, before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 made everyone equal.
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On the contrary, the slaying of the royals was a ritualistic act from the point of view not of any religion but of atheist, Bolshevik ideology.
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The best known of the Bolshevik higher-ups were subjected to grotesque public trials, the transcripts of which were duly translated and circulated around the world.
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Debs wrestled with a similar issue, veering between identifying as a "revolutionary" (or even a "Bolshevik") and seeking to attract a respectable number of socialist votes.
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After Western powers ignored China's pleas in 43, more students and scholars looked to Russia's Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 as a promising path toward national renewal.
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Their forward-looking filmstrip, "In the Year 2017" (the centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution), was recently shared by the St. Petersburg resident who now owns it.
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This episode is not well-remembered in the West, but the White forces came reasonably close to winning at one point before the ultimate Bolshevik victory.
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Maltsev said Russia is up for a revolution this weekend just as the nation prepares to mark the centennial of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution on Nov. 7.
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Not that today's post-Bolshevik Russians seem to mind UruguayThis sounds more like an overture to a forgotten Rossini opera, than the hymn to a proud nation.
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The GRU traces its history back to the times of Ivan the Terrible, though it was founded as the Registration Directorate in 1918 after the Bolshevik Revolution.
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In the social-media channels where identitarians congregate, on Twitter, Gab and 8chan, a pseudo-movement calling itself NazBol has popped up, combining Nazi and Bolshevik iconography.
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But unlike those great terrors of the 1930s, which liquidated entire social classes and most of the old Bolshevik party, the current moves are limited in scale.
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The registrar's office is located in a two-storey building on the main road, once named "October Street" for the Bolshevik revolution, now just called "Central Street".
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He bounced from Warsaw to Vilna to Kiev, was swept up by the Bolshevik Revolution, but then abruptly left the new Soviet Union for Berlin in 22009.
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His father, an engineer, served first the tsarist and then the Bolshevik government, and the family spent the war years crisscrossing the region—Belarus, Russia, Latvia, Estonia.
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His wife burned an archive of papers dating from his time as a Bolshevik emissary in Paris, fearing that the work would brand him a foreign spy.
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Towles's novel spans a number of difficult decades, but no Bolshevik, Stalinist or bureaucrat can dampen the Metropol's life; World War II only briefly forces a pause.
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Mantila said he believed the whole episode was a follow-up to earlier reports that suggested that Lenin's Bolshevik administration had no right to accept Finland's independence.
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Subtitled "The Year 1905," the piece is a kind of symphonic poem depicting Russia's 1905 revolution, often called a dress rehearsal for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
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After the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin and his newly appointed commissar of social welfare, Alexandra Kollontai, declared International Women's Day an official holiday in the Soviet Union.
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Long before the Bolshevik Revolution gave the dream a very particular political content, Shaw was primed to expect a global spiritual resurrection that would begin in Russia.
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Vladimir Lenin, the charismatic leader of the Bolshevik Party, orchestrated a seizure of power in the name of councils, or "soviets," of workers, peasants, sailors and soldiers.
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Bolshevik efforts to control internal opposition, feed the cities and supply the Red Army also kept the territories under their control in a state of constant tension.
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Red Century LONDON — After the Bolshevik Revolution of November 19245, the Soviet state became a beacon of hope for the left, and Moscow a place for pilgrimage.
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Loudon argued that the shooter, Brandon Tarrant, wasn't an extreme right-winger at all but rather a "National Bolshevik," a curious mix of Nazi and communist ideologies.
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American forces withdrew from Russia by 20033, but US-Soviet relations remained poor, and the Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover administrations all refused to recognize the Bolshevik regime.
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In the interwar years the term was used both by communists against the "bourgeois Lügenpresse" and by the Nazis against—no surprise—the allegedly Jewish and Bolshevik media.
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Shot in St Petersburg, the cradle of the Bolshevik revolution, it showed a vast, peaceful crowd in the main square watching the death throes of the Soviet empire.
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A similar view is held by Vyacheslav Nikonov, a Kremlin-connected lawmaker whose grandfather, Vyacheslav Molotov, played an important role in staging the Bolshevik power grab on Nov.
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The future president responded not out of sympathy for the "murderous tyranny" of the Bolshevik regime, but from faith in America's mission—and ability—to improve the world.
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" As Pavlovsky told me, the Bolshevik revolutionaries who first inhabited the House on the Embankment "thought that they were smarter, that they could outwit the system they created.
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The bank offered farmers more equitable access to capital, and despite initial fears that it represented a Bolshevik takeover of the state, the bank eventually gained bipartisan support.
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Among other things, "History of Our Church," written by Ms. Loginova, charts the cruel fate of the priest who served here when the Bolshevik Revolution erupted in 713.
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His father was Anastas Mikoyan, a comrade of the early Bolshevik leaders who later served as a Soviet statesman and key ally of Communist Party leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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They created a special Commissariat for Muslim Affairs under the Tatar Bolshevik Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, promising to establish a distinctive "Muslim Communism" across the Caucasus and Central Asia.
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Trotsky had been a central figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and he then organized and led the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War.
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" In 1924, the physician and Bolshevik Alexander Bogdanov began young-blood transfusions, and a fellow-revolutionary wrote that he "seems to have become seven, no, ten years younger.
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The Nazis perceived the Bauhaus to be, along with atonal music and Expressionist painting, yet another specimen of the globe-spanning Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy they sought to eliminate.
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President Woodrow Wilson and the State Department encouraged Sisson to collect evidence that Lenin and his comrades were German pawns, which would support the administration's anti-Bolshevik policies.
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Police detain members of the Other Russia movement as they gather for an unauthorized rally to mark the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution in St. Petersburg on Nov. 6.
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Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, a Bolshevik economist, argued that a broad advance was needed across the whole industrial front, not an "unco-ordinated advance by the method of capitalist guerrilla warfare".
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The most dangerous claim made by right-wing historians during the Historikerstreit was that Nazi terror was a response to Bolshevik terror, and was therefore to some degree excusable.
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When he returned to Petrograd in early October, he instigated a furious debate over the question of insurrection, and the Bolshevik leadership voted 10-2 in favor of uprising.
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The more his opponents caricature Mr. Sanders as a Sandinista or a Bolshevik, the more Mr. Sanders's actual similarity to 19th-century socialists makes him seem unthreatening, even avuncular.
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Hitler owed much of his rise to the support of conservative elites who feared a Bolshevik revolution on German soil and who believed that he alone could defeat Marxism.
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They were soon followed by Russian Jews fleeing pogroms, and then aristocrats driven out by the Bolshevik Revolution and White Russian troops seeking refuge after defeat in civil war.
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By mid-September, he felt bold enough to slip back into Russia and take up the fight again, this time preparing his lieutenants for a Bolshevik seizure of power.
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A century ago, preparing the ground for the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin famously predicted that the chain of imperialism could be broken at one of its weaker links, Russia.
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Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita" (1955)Country of origin: RussiaReasons for leaving: Born to Russian nobility, Nabokov and his family fled the Bolshevik Revolution, living in a succession of European countries.
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With millions of followers on Tencent Weibo, he became one of the country's biggest social-media celebrities ("a Bolshevik" is how he described himself in the blurb of his account).
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In the first of what will be many offerings pegged to next year's centenary of the Bolshevik revolution, she now tells the story of the world's most fateful railway journey.
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Image 2 of 70 MOSCOW – They played key roles in Russia&aposs 21940 Bolshevik Revolution, which triggered a civil war that killed millions, devastated the country and redrew its borders.
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Nationalists and some of the clergy, including Mr Putin's confessor, Father Tikhon Shevkunov, claim that the Bolshevik revolution was brought about by a Western-sponsored intelligentsia, who betrayed their tsar.
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Although Mr Putin worries about the "colour" revolutions that swept through the former Soviet Union, the greater threat is not of a mass uprising, still less of a Bolshevik revival.
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In the "July Days" of 1917, the Bolshevik leadership continued to stall even as a mass demonstration of half a million swelled outside their meeting place, demanding Vsya vlast sovyetam!
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With "The Russian Revolution" (21870), Professor Pipes mounted a frontal assault on many of the premises and long-held convictions of mainstream Western specialists on the Bolshevik seizure of power.
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Stirred by his long fascination with Georgia's history, Lee has written an account of that country's short-lived experiment as a democratic socialist republic after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
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While Joseph Stalin seizes Ukrainian land and grain, and Yuri entangles himself in the anti-Bolshevik resistance, Natalka fends off the creepy attentions of the village's Soviet overlord (Tamer Hassan).
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From the bottom of the shaft, some 22016 feet down, those who survived the fall unnerved their Bolshevik guards by singing Orthodox prayers, until the soldiers tossed grenades after them.
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During the April Days putsch, which occurred two weeks after Lenin's return, Bolshevik activists held up antiwar placards that openly urged fraternization with the enemy ("the Germans are our brothers").
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Between the 2628th century, when the Ottoman and Russian Empires became neighbors, and 28503, the year of the Bolshevik revolution, the Turks and Russians fought more than a dozen wars.
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Three senior bank officials were dragged in to Bolshevik headquarters and ordered to fill out the proper forms giving the Bolsheviks' new executive, the Sovnarkom, access to the state's money.
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Mr. Navrozov's contempt for Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, and Stalin, his brutal successor, arose out of intellectual loathing, not of a personal history of exile or repression.
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But the room was nonetheless a triumph, a reopened tomb, a definitive counterfactual – in which all the absurd and horrifying improbability of Bolshevik culture came back to outflank the mind.
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With the patronage of his mistress, Frida Kahlo, Trotsky and his wife hid from Stalin's goons while the once-mighty Bolshevik hurried to complete his unkind biography of the Soviet leader.
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All of this sounded, suspiciously, like the sort of story Arutyunyan would have learned in school when they studied the lives of the Bolshevik quasi-saints: all heroism and no human.
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To be precise, the English text was sent by the service's outpost in Latvia, where anti-Bolshevik agitation was seething, and received at intelligence headquarters in London on October 9th 1924.
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Nikolai Pankrat, a retired military man, has assembled a collection more than 10,000 pieces of memorabilia commemorating the Bolshevik leader, including 500 busts, jammed into eye-straining rooms in his home.
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On most days, the man who bears a close resemblance to the Bolshevik leader hangs out near the entrance to the square waiting to pose for tourists for a small fee.
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The National Guard was called in to quell an outbreak of violence — and, thanks to a wave of anti-Bolshevik paranoia, the striking policeman didn't garner much sympathy from the public.
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In 28503, Reilly was lured to Russia by Stalin's secret police, who had created a fake resistance organization, "The Trust," as part of a counterintelligence operation to identify anti-Bolshevik groups.
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Her friends, who include a dashing counterrevolutionary officer lover, a lesbian Bolshevik girlfriend and a bank-robbing baron with a taste for S-and-M, straddle all sides of the struggle.
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Like Marina, the real women who became revolutionaries often hailed from noble families, perhaps the most famous of them being the Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai, the Communist daughter of a czarist general.
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Eduard Limonov, a Russian writer and political activist whose chameleonlike career included living in exile in New York and leading Russia's ultra-right National Bolshevik Party, died on Tuesday in Moscow.
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The children of the Bolshevik millenarians never read Marx, Engels or Lenin at home, and, after the educational system was rebuilt around Pushkin, Soviet children stopped reading them in school, too.
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The protesters were acting on the orders of the small but militant Bolshevik wing of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Party, which had been busy propagandizing military units and factory workers.
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The family, killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918, has been a popular subject of mystery lore, much of it positing that a daughter, Anastasia, escaped death and assumed a new identity.
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Rating Amor Towles's new novel concerns Count Alexander Rostov, a suave and elegant Russian aristocrat who, in 1922, is sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to house arrest in a luxury hotel.
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The revolution led into the civil war that continued after the Allied victory in World War I, which pitted the new Bolshevik regime against various "White" armies and ethnic separatist groups.
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Editors' Choice The year of the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution has seen a number of new works published on Russian history, and our list this week includes two of them: Yuri Slezkine's "The House of Government," about an apartment complex in Moscow built for the Bolshevik elite; and the Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich's "The Unwomanly Face of War," about the Russian women who served in World War II, new in translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
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Unfazed by the showy and unexpected reception that his Bolshevik colleagues had laid on for him at Petrograd's Finland Station, Lenin jumped onto an armoured car and gave a fiery impromptu speech.
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Fine. In the early morning of July 17, 1918, Bolshevik troops instructed Tsar Nicholas II and his whole family to dress up in their party clothes and line up for a photograph.
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Leon Trotsky, a leader of Russia's Bolshevik revolution who later emerged as a prominent communist theorist, was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929 after losing a power struggle to Joseph Stalin.
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He maintained that by interning Jews, Hitler was responding to what he viewed as a Jewish-Bolshevik conspiracy and to a 1939 Zionist "declaration of war" urging all Jews to support Britain.
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Omurbek pointed out another checkpoint, built, he said, on the site of a mass grave of Basmachis, anti-Bolshevik Muslim guerrilla fighters who rebelled against Soviet rule early in the 216th century.
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And given the liberality of earlier Bolshevik gender policy, some 10 years before that it could have been an attempt at making a new gay man, an ardent Communist and farm-worker.
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After the Bolshevik takeover, Vladimir Lenin and Aleksandra Kollontai enabled a sexual revolution in the early years of the Soviet Union, with Kollontai arguing that love should be freed from economic considerations.
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We glanced at slavery just long enough to say it was bad, but we had whole units and spent weeks of time doing projects on the Holocaust or even the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Perhaps Party leaders are privately searching their souls; perhaps, as with the old Bolshevik Rubashov, in Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," ideology and power have rendered them incapable of independent moral judgment.
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As the girl from the Metropol Hotel, Petrushevskaya was born into an elite Bolshevik family in 1938, in the midst of great misfortune: Several family members were executed by Stalin's firing squads.
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It is impossible that she wouldn't have known of Hitler's virulent anti-Semitism and the Nazis' objective of ousting Jews, whom Hitler had falsely (but successfully) linked to a Bolshevik terrorist threat.
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The Bauhaus, which, according to MacCarthy, was "regarded by many as a Jewish-Bolshevik enclave, artistically crazy and racially impure," was harassed by local Nazis and pilloried in the right-leaning press.
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Her tours with the Ballet Russes and her marriage to Picasso in Paris in 53 meant that she never saw the violence of the Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent Russian civil war.
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He condemns over-ambitious efforts to re-engineer the human species but has nothing to say about the Bolshevik dream of "creating a new type of human being", whatever the cost in blood.
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She concluded that the Zinoviev letter—an English "translation" for which no original ever emerged—was probably a forgery cooked up by anti-Bolshevik Russians and then passed to the British intelligence service.
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A staunchly secular librarian and right-wing nationalist, Mr Oz's father chose to send the boy to the religious school, reckoning the important thing was that young Amos did not become a Bolshevik.
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He is the author of "Anatomy of a Bolshevik" and "Liberal Bolshevism: America Did Not Defeat Communism, She Adopted It." He has also written for the New York Daily News, RedState, and WorldNetDaily.
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The royal piece, with a diamond bowknot clasp, was kept in a strong room of the Kremlin during World War One and sold by the Bolshevik government as part of a 1927 auction.
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The centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution poses deeply uncomfortable questions for a regime fueled by contradictory strands of nostalgia -- one for the Tsarist era, the other for the Soviet system which uprooted it.
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There could indeed have been another path for the Bolshevik Revolution: the very naïveté, idealism, and lack of guile demonstrated by so many of the Old Bolsheviks remains a testament to their decency.
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The illegalists' crimes attracted the sympathy of some communist anarchists—Kibaltchiche would become a Bolshevik, once that presented itself as an option—who were not opposed in principle to stealing or breaking laws.
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Such narratives were ratified in 1989, when the fall of the Berlin Wall was seen by many as closing the book on the Bolshevik experiment and, with it, any future challenge to capitalism.
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"The left-wing media is engaged in a Bolshevik hunt, brainwashing and character assassination against me and my family," he said in Hebrew, before going on to invoke one of Trump's favorite phrases.
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Chagall had witnessed first hand the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution from the window of his apartment in Petrograd during what was supposed to have been a brief return to his home country.
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The October Revolution of 1917, led by the Bolshevik party of Vladimir Lenin, marks one of the most important events of the 33th century and one the most aesthetically ambitious revolutions of modernity.
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Russia shuddered from an imperial state into a Bolshevik republic 27700 years ago, and many museums and galleries have spent this centenary year examining the artistic legacy of the two revolutions of 1917.
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The National Liberation Movement, an ultranationalist group that idolizes Stalin and loathes those who have anything bad to say about him, did not like this competition, which included writings about the Bolshevik terror.
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Nicholas II became a sainted martyr because of the way he and his family died — in a hail of bullets fired by a Bolshevik firing squad — not because of the way he lived.
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Jay Lovestone had the support of 250 percent of the party members in 280, but his support for the Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin led Stalin to remove Lovestone as the American party's general secretary.
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The GRU, founded as the registration directorate in 1918 after the Bolshevik revolution, is one of Russia's three main intelligence agencies, alongside the domestic Federal Security Service and the SVR Foreign Intelligence Service.
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Fyodorov is also considered to be the progenitor of the Russian cosmism movement, which dovetailed with the waxing utopian philosophies that formed the rhetorical backbone of the Bolshevik Revolution 100 years ago, in 1917.
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Tsarist-era Russia was a big agricultural exporter, but Bolshevik collectivisation wiped out farming traditions and created an inefficient collective system that by the 1970s left the Soviet Union importing grain and other foodstuffs.
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But that is not the true history of the Bolshevik Revolution, which is one of mass terror, executions of political prisoners and wealthy farmers alike, and a ruthless secret police from the very start.
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Today's emotionally stunted vanguard, like the Bolshevik leadership a century ago, demands of its comrades not intellectual rigor and critical thinking but soldierly obedience in a literal war, a violent struggle for political power.
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Last week, a man drove a car packed with gas canisters into the entrance of a cinema from a different chain in Yekaterinburg, the city where Bolshevik revolutionaries executed Nicholas II and his family.
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There are dramatic cases like the Bolshevik Revolution where a very, very young republic was overturned by a true revolution, but usually what happens is the scenario begins with an election, a big election.
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Red Century LONDON — For a brief moment after the Bolshevik uprisings of 21940, it looked like revolution might be waged across vast swaths of the world under the joint banner of Communism and Islam.
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But the collapse of czarist Russia and the Bolshevik takeover gave Georgia's Marxist leaders the opportunity both to assert their country's independence and to develop an alternative to the Bolsheviks' extreme one-party dictatorship.
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But it has enraged the authorities by focusing on the relentless persecution that followed Russia's 1917 Bolshevik revolution, creating fertile ground for anti-Soviet treachery during a war that cost 25 million Soviet lives.
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Offices of the union in more than a dozen cities were raided during the night of November 7, 1919—pointedly, the second anniversary of the Bolshevik coup—and 1,182 people were arrested and interrogated.
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In a series of trials that were publicized around the world, some of the oldest and most trusted Bolshevik leaders—men who, with Lenin, had led the Russian Revolution—were accused of being traitors.
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These February days were the first turn of a revolutionary cycle that would end in November and split world history into before and after, pitting soldier against citizen, republican against Bolshevik, Russian against Russian.
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Exactly the same thing, the electricity guys back in the '30s, attacked any effort to say we need a public option or we need some oversight by saying this is Bolshevik and communist and Soviet.
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But Kotkin makes clear that the war's slaughter fields also confirmed the Bolshevik view that the capitalist-imperialist system was plunging the world into suicide—and lowered the price, in everyone's eyes, of human life.
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Alex Markovsky is a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and author of "Anatomy of a Bolshevik" and "Liberal Bolshevism: America Did Not Defeat Communism, She Adopted It." View the discussion thread.
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His desk in the right, rear corner of the Moscow office was neatly arranged, and above it hung a satirical drawing of the newly minted president, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, looking like an angry, bloodthirsty Bolshevik.
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Alex Markovsky is a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and author of "Anatomy of a Bolshevik" and "Liberal Bolshevism: America Did Not Defeat Communism, She Adopted It." View the discussion thread.
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Back in Petrograd, Lenin, aided by fellow-radicals Trotsky and Stalin, had to overpower erring Bolshevik comrades, who proposed cooperation with the provisional government, and force them to agree to his plan for a coup.
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" Nolte portrayed Nazism as a reaction to the "existential threat" posed by Bolshevism and suggested Bolshevik "class murder" was comparable to the Holocaust, calling it the "logical and factual predecessor to the Nazi 'racial murder.
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Zizek, a Slovenian political philosopher and cultural critic, seeks to portray Lenin as a flexible Bolshevik, particularly during the final two years of his active life, before he was disabled by a series of strokes.
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Telling the story of a veteran Bolshevik who is awaiting trial for treason, the book originally appeared in December, 19468, just two years after the events that it drew on, and became a worldwide phenomenon.
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Stalin's prewar Bolshevik nightmare was responsible for 20 million dead, but apparently was not so loathsome that the Soviet Union could not prove temporarily useful for Churchill and Roosevelt in bleeding out the Nazi Wehrmacht.
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In 1990, when I was in college, I spoke on the phone to the Russian-born musical polymath Nicolas Slonimsky, who recalled walking the streets of Petrograd on the first day of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Then came Lenin's October Revolution, in which his Bolshevik faction seized power, took Russia out of the war, and began articulating an ideological vision that entailed the overthrow of essentially every government in the world.
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British military officers pushed for the stronger law over concerns about an "increase in Bolshevik activity", along with geopolitical threats including "the possibility of racial war between Japan and the USA affecting India", the history said.
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Her mother, Cecilia Eitingon, was the daughter of Belorussian Jews, successful fur traders who moved from Poland, after their street was bombed by the Germans, to Moscow where a few years later the Bolshevik Revolution came.
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When they rejected communism in the 220s, Yeltsin and his colleagues portrayed Russia not as a new nation state but as an heir to its pre-Bolshevik self, borrowing many of its symbols, including its flag.
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The church's attitude towards the Soviet era will soon be in the spotlight as Russia commemorates the centenary of the execution of its last tsar and his family by a Bolshevik firing squad in July 1918.
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After a brief jostle for independence in the wake of the first world war, Armenians and Azerbaijanis came under Bolshevik control; Soviet commissars declared Nagorno-Karabakh a part of Azerbaijan, though a majority Armenian population remained.
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It recognized the new Bolshevik government in 1924 but then expelled Soviet diplomats and shuttered their embassy three years later after the police uncovered what they said was a Soviet espionage ring bent on spreading mayhem.
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As he adjusts gamely to his diminishing circumstances over more than three decades, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov manages to view the absurdities of both the decadent czarist past and the earnest Bolshevik present with wry detachment.
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The reasons for this go back to the years after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, when the vast properties of the Russian Orthodox Church were nationalized, religious instruction was outlawed and believing in miracles was officially forbidden.
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Sellers of traditional matryoshka nesting dolls have added Trump dolls to their popular line-up of items carved in the likeness of President Vladimir Putin, Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, ex-President Mikhail Gorbachev and Josef Stalin.
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With all the inevitable attention on the Bolshevik takeover in October 1917, when Lenin and Leon Trotsky seized power from the ill-fated provisional government, the extraordinary events of February and March should not be forgotten.
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He said that while Mr. Putin had helped lift Soviet-era suspicion of Cossacks, who mostly sided with anti-Bolshevik forces during Russia's 1917-22 civil war, he had forgotten the core of the Cossack creed.
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In the north, British, French, American and Polish troops, originally sent to secure food and munitions in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, soon found themselves in a campaign to link up with the anti-Bolshevik movement in Siberia.
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The irony of the current situation is that a century after the Bolshevik Revolution, Moscow risks repeating the same mistake Germany made in 1917: believing that revolutions can be a reliable ally in achieving geopolitical results.
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Mr. Reinstein was a true believer in the Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet ideology and left his wife, Anna, to return to Russia, where he worked in the Library of the Marx, Lenin and Engels Institute.
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The portraits of Lenin have been replaced with Orthodox icons and the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution has been swapped for a celebration of the expulsion of the (Catholic) Poles from (Orthodox) Russia in the 17th century.
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The episodes are united by a common theme: Their protagonists, who are spread across the globe, are all convinced they're somehow descendants of the Romanoffs, the last dynasty to rule Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
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Attributed, probably erroneously, to Lenin describing liberal supporters in the West who could be relied on to spread Bolshevik propaganda, the term "useful idiot" was often applied to members of groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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But as most of America's eastern seaboard braces itself for this year's first potential mega blizzard—dubbed Winter Storm Jonas—we all seem to be fearing shortages worthy of early-Bolshevik Siberia in the dead of winter.
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The report, issued by FireEye, a major cybersecurity company, identifies the Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics, a technical research institute in Moscow with ties to Russian governments reaching back before the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
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Given the FSB's insistence on lines of continuity back to the early Bolshevik Red Terror, it seems safe to assume that the fulfillment of such "special tasks," in security service parlance, is built into the FSB's DNA.
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