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BC Info Bot<p>The Tyee: We Might Think We Know Russia. Why We’re Wrong <a href="https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/09/26/We-Think-We-Know-Russia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/09/26/</span><span class="invisible">We-Think-We-Know-Russia/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/bcnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcnews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/TheTyee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheTyee</span></a> - via @tyee@mstdn.ca <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/UnionofSovietSocialistRepublics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnionofSovietSocialistRepublics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/CatherinetheGreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CatherinetheGreat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/post" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>post</span></a>-SovietRussia <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/StoryofRussiabook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoryofRussiabook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/MikhailGorbachev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikhailGorbachev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/NikitaKhrushchev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NikitaKhrushchev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/AlexanderNevsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlexanderNevsky</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/ByzantineEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ByzantineEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/CzarNicholasII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CzarNicholasII</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/Russianhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russianhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/PetertheGreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PetertheGreat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/VladimirPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VladimirPutin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/OrlandoFiges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrlandoFiges</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/GoldenHorde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoldenHorde</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/JosefStalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JosefStalin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.roitsystems.ca/tags/KyivanRus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KyivanRus</span></a></p>
Ralph Brooker<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Historian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Historian</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a> specialist and anti-<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>activist</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OrlandoFiges" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OrlandoFiges</span></a> (‘A People’s Tragedy’) maintains that the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>intellectualism</span></a> of the moderate <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bolsheviks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bolsheviks</span></a> (eg Kamenev) prevented any pressure or authority being applied to Lenin’s de facto dictatorship by the end of 1917 in the immediate political aftermath of the October Revolution. Worth pausing on that thought. The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Intellect" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Intellect</span></a> v. the will to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Power</span></a></p>
Ralph Brooker<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@nzas95" class="u-url mention">@<span>nzas95</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OrlandoFiges" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OrlandoFiges</span></a> ‘A People’s Tragedy’ (story of Russian Revolution and Civil War). Already well into it so that’s a carry-over. Then Michel Winock, ‘Gouverner La France’.</p>
Ralph Brooker<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OrlandoFiges" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OrlandoFiges</span></a> classic, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThePeoplesTragedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThePeoplesTragedy</span></a>. That title is relegated to subtitle in this <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gallimard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gallimard</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Foliohistoire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Foliohistoire</span></a> edition in 2 vols. A shame because the cack-handed, almost farcical October revolution was not the rising of a people. It was the beginning of a civil war and in the long-run a people’s oppression <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a>.</p>
Ralph Brooker<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@nidgethompson" class="u-url mention">@<span>nidgethompson</span></a></span> Just to say I’m revisiting # <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MacCulloch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MacCulloch</span></a> (Hist. of Christianity) to get a perspective on the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> of the emergence of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> relative to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a>. I have no other significant source. A secondary source those is <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OrlandoFiges" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OrlandoFiges</span></a>’ brilliant A People’s Tragedy, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Revolution</span></a>. The second volume of the French translation shown in photo. In English, one big massive tome. Superb book. MacCulloch is a master as you know.</p>
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