#russian revolution

[vicarianforge]

“We are passing through weeks and months such as only occur in the history of humanity once in a thousand years.”-Leon Trotsky

[wannabe-eugene-debs]

I've always wanted to see/write a miniseries on the Russian Revolution emotionally centered on the relationship between Lenin and Martov relationship, I think it is genuinely really fascinating. in some ways it seems like one of Lenin's only genuine human connections even though he hated him most of the time. any time martov so much as agreed with Lenin on like what to eat for lunch he'd make a big show of running around like "HE'S BACK!!! MARTOV'S NOT AN OPPORTUNIST ANY MORE, GUYS, MARTOV'S 100% ON OUR SIDE AGAIN!!!"

[lafillenfeu]

ok today I had a russian rev and ww1 test and most of my classmates agree that russian rev is such an interesting theme

[scholarofgloom]

[silvestriste]

Title cards for the 1983 miniseries Reilly: Ace of Spies, starring Sam Neill.

[lilithsaintcrow]

"Consisting of “a contracting double helix that spirals upward, supported by a huge diagonal girder,” Tatlin’s Tower would contain four sub-structures, each rotating at a different speed."

Tatlin’s Tower, One of the Most Ambitious Buildings That Was Never Built

It's no small project to found a new society, especially when you're doing it on the scale of a place like Russia. Apart from the considerab

[kissedmelancholylatte]

thinking about the romanov sisters today

[todaysdocument]

Maxim Gorky's Appeal to the American People

Collection HH-ARA: American Relief Administration RecordsSeries: American Relief Administration Russian Operations RecordsFile Unit: American Relief Administration Russian Operations vol. 1  

MAXIM GORKY'S APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 

Reprinted from the [underlined] New York Times 

23 July 1921.

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"Moscow, July 13.

"To All Honest People:

"The corn-growing steppes are smitten by crop failure, caused by the drought. The calamity threatens starvation to millions of Russian People. Think of the Russian people's exhaustion by the war and revolution, which considerably reduced its resistance to disease and its physical endurance. Gloomy days have come for the country of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Meneleyev, Pavlov, Mussergsky, Clinka and other world-prized men, and I venture to trust that the cultured European and American people, understanding the tragedy of the Russian people, will immediately succor with bread and medicines.

"If humanitarian ideas and feelings - faith in whose social import was so shaken by the damnable war and its victors' unmercifulness towards the vanquished - if faith in the creative force of these ideas and feelings, I say, must and can be restored, Russia's misfortune offers humanitarians a splendid opportunity to demonstrate the vitality of humanitarianism. I think particularly warm sympathy in succoring the Russian people must be shown by those who, during the ignominious war so passionately preached fratricidal hatred, thereby withering the educational efficacy of ideas evolved by mankind in the most arduous labors and so lightly killed by stupidity and cupidity. People who understand the words of agonizing pain will forgive the involuntary bitterness of my words.

"I ask all honest European and American people for prompt aid to the Russian people. Give bread and medicine.

MAXIM GORKY."