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Putin sits at a long, long table…

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Naomi

…Far away from potential assassins. Russia once had another leader who commanded violence and death but stayed well away from it himself — Lenin. This, from Victor Sebestyen’s biography: As usual, where the violence was, Lenin wasn’t…In his circle of … Continue reading →

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Part 3. The matriarch of all revolutions

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Naomi

You thought we were finished? Oh no. Bannon’s revolution is finished — except for the prison sentences. But in the Russian Revolution, the battiness continued. When I left off excerpting Victor Sebestyen’s narrative of the Russian Revolution in his biography … Continue reading →

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Part 2. The matriarch of all revolutions

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Naomi

As I wrote a few days ago, the Russian Revolution — as narrated by Victor Sebestyen in his historical biography, Lenin — was a series of absurdities which remind me of Armando Iannucci’s great satirical film, The Death of Stalin. … Continue reading →

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