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  • On Nov. 7, 1893, an anarchist threw two bombs from the balcony of Barcelona’s El Liceu Opera House, killing 20 people
    On Nov. 7, 1893, an anarchist threw two bombs from the balcony of Barcelona’s El Liceu Opera House, killing 20 people
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    Russian Terrorists and Their ‘Progressive’ Allies

    The modern alliance between bourgeois progressivism and political violence was born in 19th-century Russia. It didn’t end well.

    byAnna Geifman
  • Barricades during the Paris Commune, near the Place de la Concorde, 1871
    Barricades during the Paris Commune, near the Place de la Concorde, 1871
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    The Paris Commune at 150

    France’s second revolutionary sequel was a failure. But it looks better than its successors.

    byMitchell Abidor
  • Jewish inhabitants of Neu-Sandec watch a passing German patrol, 1915.
    Jewish inhabitants of Neu-Sandec watch a passing German patrol, 1915.
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    The Jews Who Stabbed Germany in the Back

    Seventy-nine years after Kristallnacht, ‘A Deadly Legacy,’ a new history of German Jewish soldiers during World War I, traces the origins of the European scapegoating that would engulf the continent some years later

    byDavid Mikics
  • A monument to the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin in Nizhny Novgorod.
    A monument to the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin in Nizhny Novgorod.
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    The Sickening Cost of Lenin’s Revolution

    Victor Sebestyen’s engaging ‘Lenin’ and Anne Applebaum’s meticulous ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ help explain why a century later the central amorality of the unfulfilled Utopian ideal is still with us

    byDavid Mikics
  • Soviets attacking the Czar's police in the early days of the March Revolution
    Soviets attacking the Czar's police in the early days of the March Revolution
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    The Dark Centennial of the Russian Revolution

    What would have happened if the Mensheviks had come to power in Russia, instead of the Bolsheviks, 100 years ago? America gives us a clue.

    byPaul Berman
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    Trotsky the Jew

    Joshua Rubenstein’s new biography obscures the Russian revolutionary’s violent extremism while overemphasizing his Jewishness

    byRichard Pipes
  • Leon Trotsky(Wikimedia Commons)
    Leon Trotsky(Wikimedia Commons)
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    The Firebrand

    A new biography tries to extinguish the myth of the kinder, gentler Trotsky

    byAdam Kirsch
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