Tag: Soviet regime

• Saturday, November 11th 2017 - 09:15 UTC

  The Great October Revolution

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - China Mieville, a novelist I much admire, has published a history of the October Revolution to mark its hundredth anniversary (which is actually on 7 November, since the Russians were still using the Julian calendar in 1917). It had an unusual effect on me. It made me question whether I was right about the utter futility of that revolution.

• Saturday, October 10th 2015 - 06:37 UTC

  Nobel literature for lady in love with kind Russia, “not that of Stalin or Putin”

  

  Belarusian writer and dissident Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.