The failed dream of a Russian revolution

Russian citizens carry a banner reading 'Great October Socialist Revolution' during a rally marking the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in central Moscow, Russia [Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters] Exactly one hundred years ago today, in the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter Palace in Petrograd (today’s St Petersburg) was stormed. This event marked the beginning of the Great October Revoluti

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"Starlin's "revolution from above", launched in 1928 with the policy of collectivisation and dekulakisation...reopened the gates of hell and converted Soviet socialism once and for all into a barbarous and murderous regime. "