Several key figures travelled to Soviet Russia in its early days to witness the socialist state in action.
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The certificate gave a new form of international protection to stateless Russian and Armenian refugees.
Because the Kremlin hopes to project strength and unity, history isn’t used as much to inform as it is to inspire, with events cherry-picked to fit within a fuzzy framework of ‘Russian greatness.’
Stephen Kerensky on why he thinks his grandfather’s legacy has been so maligned.
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It’s been 100 years since revolution swept through Russia and we have dedicated The Anthill 18 to this seminal moment in world history.
Four empires fell, a world was shaken, a new order arose – and the long 20th century really began.
If Rosa Luxemburg and her comrades had been successful with their German revolution in 1919, history would most probably have taken a very different course, avoiding the rise of fascism in Europe.
Sergei Rachmaninoff fled the Russian revolution 100 years ago. Spending the remainder of his life in the US, he composed what is perhaps his greatest work in 1940, the Symphonic Dances.
When women are remembered as part of the Communist or any other political tradition it’s often as an afterthought, or as part of the support system of the revolution.
Radical political change is not something Putin wants to celebrate.
Alie Fataar exemplifies the type of teacher South Africa sorely requires today if its classrooms are to be used to develop a new generation of critical, engaged students.
How is Vladimir Putin - for whom uprisings are anathema - treating this year’s centenary of the Russian revolution?
As the remains of the Tsar and Tsarina are exhumed, why their story continues to enthral.
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Hansen Professor in History, Deputy Dean, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Modern European History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Modern (Russian) History, Lancaster University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University
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Reader in Political Economy, Brunel University London
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