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‘The First Russian Revolution’ Review: Dream of the Decembrists
In late 1825, a group of reform-minded Russian military officers believed the time was ripe to end the rule of the czars.
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Why Russia Is Honoring a Soviet Secret Policeman - The Atlantic
He joined the Russian Bolsheviks, and shortly after the 1917 revolution, Vladimir Lenin put him in charge of creating a secret-police organization. (The czars had one, of course; the Bolsheviks ...
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1917 Russian Revolution: The gay community's brief window of freedom - BBC
1917 Russian Revolution: The gay community's brief window of freedom. 10 November 2017. ... The secret police had not forgotten his claims that "sodomizers were corrupting the army and navy".
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Essay: Constance Garnett’s love of Russian literature and radical politics - The New York Times
The radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator, Constance Garnett. By Jennifer Wilson Jennifer Wilson, a contributing essayist at the Book Review, has a Ph.D. in ...
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On the Eve of the Russian Revolution, a Palace Coup Seemed Inevitable, But Where Would it Come From? - Smithsonian Magazine
On the Eve of the Russian Revolution, a Palace Coup Seemed Inevitable, ... into the Third Section [the Czar’s secret police], and even into the Winter Palace.” – Sergei Nechaev, ...