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UTOPIA500 Series Wraps with ACLU President Herman Talk (McGeorge School of Law)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
(Source. McGeorge School of Law). Susan N. Herman, Brooklyn Law School, and ACLU President, presented 'Constitutional Utopianism,' on April 21, 2016. April 26, 2016. Tags. Home Page, Faculty & Scholarship, Student Life, 2016, News. The year 2016 is the quincentennial of Thomas More's UTOPIA ... Papke noted the affinity that existed between the themes in Utopia and the views of Karl Marx as well as those of leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution....

Tension In A Tajik City After Authorities Hand Mosque To Homeless Family

Edit Radio Free Europe 26 Apr 2016
KULOB, Tajikistan -- There’s a tug-of-war between the state and society in Tajikistan over mosques, and Savsan Jonova is stuck right in the middle of it ... But Jonova’s neighbors -- at least the ones who built the house of worship in 2014 -- are not so happy.  ... Savsan Jonova ... x. Savsan Jonova ...   ... In that makeshift home, a bust of Bolshevik Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin peered out from a corner behind a bed....

The Funeral of Colonel Zygmunt ... (Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Poland)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source. Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Poland) ... 'I extend my words of honor and glory to those who fought for an independent Poland ... This myth, as he said, was based on the memory of soldiers of the January Insurrection, in memory of those Poles who won the fight for independence in 1918, as well as the memory of those who defended Warsaw and Poland from the Bolsheviks in 1920 ... *** ... Original Document ... (noodl. 33227381) ....

The left-wing firebrands who turned to the right

Edit New Statesman 25 Apr 2016
“The party, for Chambers, was less a political organisation than a crucible for the forging of his own Bolshevik soul.” It is an astute judgement, one that applies to some degree to all of the six apostates from the left whose lives and beliefs Oppenheimer examines in this arresting and at times revelatory study....

A New Window Into Russia

Edit The American Spectator 25 Apr 2016
Since one tribe of cavemen began to observe another, it’s been the norm for one tribe or nation to covertly gather information on another. We live in the age of spy satellites and the interception of telephone, email and social media conversations ... RC-135 spy aircraft that same week ... Next year, we will have to wait and see how Russia celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution that created the Soviet Union ... ....

‘Vindictive’ Polish leaders using new war museum to rewrite history, says academic

Edit The Observer 24 Apr 2016
Due to open in December in the northern city of Gdańsk, the museum is billed as one of Europe’s prestige cultural projects for 2016. It comprises 13 storeys – six of them underground – and has been built at a cost of £72m ... He told the Observer that attempts by the Law and Justice government to hijack the museum are “Bolshevik’’ in style and “paranoid’’. He said ... “He is behaving like a Bolshevik and a paranoid troublemaker ... They didn’t ... ....

IWP holds the sixth annual Kosciuszko Chair Spring Symposium (The Institute of World Politics)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Apr 2016
(Source. The Institute of World Politics). On April 9, 2016, The Institute of World Politics hosted the sixth annual Kosciuszko Chair Spring Symposium, an event sponsored by IWP's Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies ... Mrs ... Dr ... The ideology, institutions, and tools that are used to form and implement the strategic communication of the Russian Federation are based on the experiences of Tsarist Russia, Bolshevik Russia, and the Soviet Union....

Martial Arts Fighter Jeff Monson Pays Tribute To Lenin

Edit Radio Free Europe 22 Apr 2016
After laying flowers at Lenin's mausoleum, in which the Bolshevik leader's body has been kept since his death in 1924, Monson said, "Communism ......

My Hunt for Bernie’s Grandfather

Edit The American Spectator 22 Apr 2016
In so doing, they also went to lengths to defend Bolshevik Russia under Lenin and Trotsky as unfairly maligned, especially by the American press ... The courtroom claims that the disinterested teacher was merely conducting a neutral Socratic dialogue with his students was clearly shown to be nonsense by his public advocacy on behalf of Bolshevik Russia thereafter....

Address by President on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the outbreak of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (President of the Republic of Poland)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Apr 2016
(Source. President of the Republic of Poland). Distinguished Righteous Among the Nations,. Madam Prime Minister,. Your Excellency, Madam Ambassador,. Your Excellency, Mr Ambassador, ... This is a day of memory ... The Kosciuszko Insurrection, the November uprising, the January Uprising, Poland's regaining independence in 1918, the Legions, defending Poland against the Bolshevik invasion in 1920, defending it against the German invasion in 1939....

Address by President Andrzej Duda on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of the outbreak of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (President of the Republic of Poland)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Apr 2016
(Source. President of the Republic of Poland). Distinguished Righteous Among the Nations,. Madam Prime Minister,. Your Excellency, Madam Ambassador,. Your Excellency, Mr Ambassador, ... This is a day of memory ... The Kosciuszko Insurrection, the November uprising, the January Uprising, Poland's regaining independence in 1918, the Legions, defending Poland against the Bolshevik invasion in 1920, defending it against the German invasion in 1939....

Canada’s $15 Billion Saudi Arms Deal: What History Tells Us

Edit CounterPunch 21 Apr 2016
This decision has been sharply criticized by journalists, activists, and international organizations ... has accused Saudi Arabia of war crimes [6] ... Canada’s first Prime Minister, John A ... Canada was among the 14 imperialist states that invaded the Soviet Union in 1918 in an effort to bolster the forces of the anti-Bolshevik White Army and stop the Russian working class from establishing socialist government [18] ... Notes. [1]. [2]. [3]....

Majority of Russians Fond of Lenin and Regret Soviet Collapse

Edit Newsweek 20 Apr 2016
Over half of Russians regret the collapse of the Soviet Union and believe it was avoidable, research from Russian independent pollster Levada Center shows ... Try Newsweek. Subscription offers ... When asked how they felt about the man who led the Bolshevik revolution and set up the Soviet Union, 53 percent of Russians felt his role was entirely or largely positive in Russian history ... ....
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