Lenin

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• 3/27/2022
  

  Putin is Carrying on Stalin's War on Self-Determination

  by Uriel Abulof

  Before Woodrow Wilson, Lenin advanced the ideal of national self-determination as part of communist revolution. Stalin made the term a cynical tool of Russian imperialism, a move Putin's approach to Ukraine emulates. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/3/2021
  

  The GOP’s Bolshevik Moment

  by Fred Kaplan

  Alexander Kerensky's tenure as Russia's only prime minister between the overthrow of the Czar and the Bolshevik takeover was cut short in part because he viewed Lenin as an ally against his monarchist enemies. Republican Party leaders risk the same fate if they accept the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene as allies against Joe Biden.

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• 10/11/2020
  

  The Lenin Plot: The Concealed History of The US-Led Effort to Overthrow the USSR

  by Barnes Carr

  "The Lenin Plot was a massive embarrassment for the Allies, and they tried to cover it up. The denial continued for years."

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-6-17
  

  100 years later, Bolshevism is back

  by Anne Applebaum

  And we should be worried.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  11-7-17
  

  October Revolution: Russia's Communists Warn of Riots If Lenin Is Buried, Kadyrov Demands Apology

  For almost a century, the revolutionary’s body has laid embalmed in a mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square, splitting opinion from the outset.

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• 7-19-15
  

  The Anarchist Who Stood Up to Lenin and the Bolshevik Coup of October 1917

  by Sergey V. Saytanov

  His name was Peter Kropotkin. We should remember him.

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• SOURCE: NYT Book Review
  11-26-14
  

  NYT lauds newest biography of Stalin. It's by Stephen Kotkin.

  Kotkin's new study depicts Stalin as an autodidact, an astute thinker, “a people person” with “surpassing organizational abilities; a mammoth appetite for work; a strategic mind and an unscrupulousness that recalled his master teacher, Lenin."