april 1917: how lenin rearmed

The moderate socialist parties, in turn, took a position of “revolutionary defensism,” which insisted that the overthrow of the autocracy and the establishment of a democratic Russia justified military defense of Russia against Germany. . ..

the lies of our (financial) times

Independent, democratic Russia, free of western pillage and electoral meddling is labelled “authoritarian”; social welfare which serves to decrease inequality is denigrated as ‘populism’ ---linked to the far right. ..

yeltsin handling of veto admirable

Russian President Boris Yeltsin commendably refused to choose the path of least resistance Wednesday when he vetoed a misguided law that seeks to limit the freedom of religion in the new, presumably democratic Russia. . ..

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