David Lean movies screens at BBJ Jul 22, 2008
At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the center will show Doctor Zhivago (1965, 197 minutes), based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel prize-winning novel, which examines events before and after the Russian Revolution. The movie won five Oscars. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- City)
Czar leads vote for greatest Russian Jul 16, 2008
Czar Nicholas II, left, and his son Alexei Nikolaievitch are shown in this undated photo sawing wood to heat the Siberian prison camp where they were held during the Russian Revolution. . (MSNBC -- International)
LETTERS: NCT, July 15, 2008 Jul 16, 2008
"Using the political term "partial birth abortion" to describe the procedure known medically as "intact dilation and extraction" is to utilize propaganda. That term is a public-relations invention of those seeking to outlaw a method that is very rarely used, but when deemed medically necessary, is the least invasive to the woman.Please note that we are not just talking about "late term" or "3rd trimester" abortions, which are extremely rare (less than 4 out of 10,000 abortions) and ALWAYS the... (North County Times)
The 39 Steps Jul 13, 2008
The idea of a comic adaptation of Hitchcock's classic was brought to Barlow by producers after his troupe, the National Theatre of Brent, staged award-winning epic adaptations of the Zulu wars and the Russian revolution with only two actors. Shortly after her death, it even dramatised the life of Lady Di. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Teradyne co-founder dies at 80 Jul 13, 2008
"MIT has lost an extraordinary friend who paired his passionate devotion to the Institute with a brilliantly dispassionate, clear-eyed view of how it could grow even stronger.'' According to MIT, d'Arbeloff was born in 1927 in Paris to parents who had fled the Russian Revolution a decade earlier. The d'Arbeloffs moved to South America in 1936, to New York two years later and to Los Angeles the following year, before returning to New York in 1940. After graduating from MIT with a bachelor's in... (EETimes)
Go To the People! Jul 5, 2008
Consequences and Future Russian Revolutionaries ... Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 (New York: Penguin, 1996) 139-143. (Suite101.com)
Inflation under the covers Jul 4, 2008
A better-known example is Weimar Germany, and a lesser-known example is the Russian Revolution, which created the money to. wage World War 1 and caused food prices to skyrocket. (Asia Times Online)
America: Land of Hope and Fresh Starts Jul 2, 2008
He worked alone for 14 years before he managed to bring the surviving members of his family to the New World (he lost five of his six children during World War I and the Russian Revolution). My father, born shortly after my already 50-year-old grandfather re-united with his long-suffering wife, represented the ultimate example of America as the land of new life. (Townhall.com)
Tunguska, 100 Years Later [Slide Show] Jul 1, 2008
In the intervening years it was distracted by World War I and toppled in the Russian Revolution of 1917, which also brought on the chaos of the Russian Civil War. Finally, in 1927, Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik led a Soviet expedition through the region. (Scientific American)
56 comments Jun 24, 2008
It's not surprising that Trotskyites, themselves embedded in Washington and its politics, and beforehand, the co-architects of the Russian Revolution and all the ethnocleansing that followed, find it repellent and vile to state the truth: that in destroying Nazi Germany and looking the other way so far as Stalin's crimes during this period, already greater than the Fuhrer's, the former and current GREAT empires of the world unleashed and allowed a far greater strain of evil to plague the earth... (Human Events Online)
Abraham Zapruder Filmed JFK Murder Jun 22, 2008
In 1920, amidst the chaos of the Russian Revolution, Zapruder and his family emigrated to the United States. Now calling Brooklyn, New York, their home, Zapruder went to work in Manhattan's garment district as a pattern maker. (Suite101.com)
Russia romp into Euro quarters Jun 19, 2008
" Russian revolution Arshavin, who was suspended for the first two group games, gave Russia the attacking spark they needed, with his direct running and some slick passing causing Sweden all sorts of problems. Yuri Zhirkov drove a volley wide after 21 minutes, but three minutes later Russia were ahead when a clever pass enabled Konstantin Zyryanov to escape down the right before he played the ball inside to Alexander Anyukov. The dangerous midfielder then rolled it into the path of Pavlyuchenko... (Aljazeera.Net)
British Involvement In Afghanistan From 'The Great Game" onwards, by Sky's historical commentator Alistair Bruce Jun 18, 2008
The 'Great Game' held Britain and Russia in check until 1907 when both countries signed a treaty but it kicked off again after the Russian revolution, when post-war distrust of communist intentions put the British Empire back on guard. Modern day soldier in Afghanistan. (Sky News)
Art.view: Time for reflection Jun 15, 2008
Just a year ago, two spirited bidders at Christie's in London pushed up the price of Picking Apples , a sumptuous picture by Natalya Goncharova, a Russian Modernist who emigrated first to Switzerland after the Russian revolution of 1917 and then to Paris. The hammer went down at 4. (The Economist)
Down to Earth Jun 12, 2008
Unfortunately for investigators, not only was the site's location intensely remote but they were also bang in the middle of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. It wasn't until more than a decade later that the first teams managed to reach the area to be dumbfounded at the scale of destruction they discovered. (India Times, India)
Bowring: Living on the edge of Russia Jun 10, 2008
Most left after the Russian revolution, many settling, for a while, in Harbin, Shanghai and Hong Kong before moving on. Chita was even capital of the short- lived (1920-23) Far Eastern Republic, a semi-autonomous pro-Bolshevik state created in the chaos of the Russian civil war. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
* [CLASSICAL DVD REVIEWS] Jun 4, 2008
The Russian Revolution was the greatest fairy tale of them all, someone remarks. These DVDs are particularly fine because they root music in history, mixing archive footage, musical and performance extracts, and modern interviews. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Jon WertheimINSIDE TENNIS Jun 1, 2008
Russian Revolution: They just keep coming. Eduardo Schwank and the Ratiwatana brothers: We'll say it again: In the market for players to root for. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
The reality situation May 31, 2008
You'll be reminded that the 1979 Iranian revolution is one of the signature events of modern history, akin to the 1917 Russian Revolution, and the United States has never figured out how to deal with it. You'll gather your intelligence experts to help you understand the Iranian threat. (International Herald Tribune)
Myths Surrounding the Revolutionary War May 30, 2008
com - Myths Surrounding Russian Revolution and U.S. Revolutionary War ... Myths Surrounding Russian Revolution and U.S. Revolutionary War. (Newsmax)
Ringside at the revolution May 28, 2008
As with most eyewitnesses, my father's stories were full of paradoxes and images that subverted the usual cliches about the Russian Revolution. For instance, my grandfather, this arrogant and snobbish figure, was tolerated, even encouraged by the new regime, culminating in him building Moscow's first automated telephone exchange. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
ACLU: Cops = Terrorists May 28, 2008
And as is well-known, ACLU founder Roger Baldwin was more than a little smitten with communism, praising the Russian Revolution as "the greatest and most daring experiment yet undertaken to recreate society in terms of human values" and calling the Soviet Union "a great laboratory of social experimentation of incalculable value to the development of the world.". The ACLU seems to continue to have a fondness for America's enemies to this day, and not only in its federal lawsuits over the past... (Investors Business Daily)
Off the menu, into your glass May 27, 2008
The drink's name is said to have a connection with the 1917 Russian revolution, when tsarist sympathizers on the White Army's side fought against the Bolshevik Red Army and the Green Army. A Bloody Mary is made by mixing vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce -- a widely used fermented liquid for flavoring of food and drink -- and Tobasco sauce. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- City)
Alexei Ratmansky: A choreographer's revolution at the Bolshoi May 26, 2008
While the comrades in the street were waxing nostalgic about the Russian Revolution, Alexei Ratmansky, the 39-year-old artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, was busy trying to get the French Revolution off the ground - or, rather, a highly stylized re-creation of it. His leotard-clad troops were deployed in several rehearsal studios adjacent to the Bolshoi Theater. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Faberge Hatches A New Egg May 24, 2008
The last time one was made was in 1917 just prior to the Russian Faberge family being scattered by the Russian revolution ... The original Faberge family was scattered by the Russian revolution in 1917. (Forbes)
Faberge Egg Goes Back To Its Nest May 24, 2008
"There's a terrific romance associated with them, initially with the Russian Revolution. The workmanship of the Rothschild egg is simply extraordinary--the gold work, the wonderful pink enamel. Every aspect of it was just fantastic.". Each Faberg. (Forbes)
Revived Faberge to create first egg since 1917 May 23, 2008
LONDON A revived Faberge luxury goods group plans to resurrect its founder's work next year with the launch of the first jewel-encrusted egg since 1917, when the Faberge family was scattered by the Russian revolution ... The last Faberge egg completed before the Russian revolution was military egg made of steel since gems and precious metals were not available, Gilbertson said. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
"DIARY OF A BLOOD DONOR" May 18, 2008
The book's protagonist, an Estonian writer (whose name, Jonathan Hark, is a reference to the central character of Dracula, Jonathan Harker), receives an anonymous letter inviting him to Leningrad for a meeting where the cruiser Aurora (which fired the shots inaugurating the Russian Revolution) has docked. "This meeting is vital," the letter insists, and so Hark is off on a journey that will take him into the clutches of Michelson, a mild but terrifying figure from Estonia's history, who has... (New York Post -- Opinions)
Activist minister often in trouble May 18, 2008
There also were those who hated anything Russian because of the Russian Revolution. In an impassioned July 4th speech, Flint defended those in the community who were being persecuted, and his speech inflamed many of those who were most vocal in their resentment. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
The political is personal for Havana-born Garcia May 9, 2008
One recent class dealt with "the Political and Personal in Literature," an important theme for Garcia, and covered the Russian Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Cuban and Iranian revolutions and on into the present day. "Everything I write has a political backdrop," Garcia says. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Artist for Obama stops in Raleigh May 9, 2008
Posters from the era of the Russian revolution come to mind, Levine said, along with war bond posters from World War II, posters advocating civil rights and feminist causes and arguing against the Vietnam War in the 1960s. To that tradition, Noland adds the use of the Internet to disseminate the images. (News & Observer)
Imagine how it feels to be chronically hungry May 6, 2008
In the wake of the First World War and the Russian Revolution there was a famine in Russia. First hand observations mentioned that food topics incessantly occupied the whole consciousness of pre-school and school children and conversations about meals were the only possible approach to them. (Globe and Mail)
Tsar's lost children identified May 2, 2008
Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their five children - Alexei, Anastasia, Maria, Olga, and Tatiana - were shot dead in the basement of a house in Yekaterinburg after the Russian revolution. Attempts were made to destroy their bodies with acid, and they were then dumped in a pit. (BBC News -- Europe)
With friends like these . . . Apr 19, 2008
Most of the radical and progressive achievements of the 20th century - including the Russian revolution - were brought about by an alliance between the oppressed and the intelligentsia, and a good proportion of them - particularly the Russian revolution - were followed by disappointment and desertion. For some, disillusion set in as early as 1921, when the Bolsheviks suppressed a sailors' uprising at Kronstadt, the port of St Petersburg and cradle of the October revolution. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Root canal of all evil| Apr 16, 2008
Josef Stalin (pictured) and his compatriot Vladimir Lenin were known as "Old Bolsheviks" n unofficial designation for a member of the Bolshevik party before the Russian Revolution of 1917. FEATURE The root canal of all evil Marina Lapenkova Tue, 15 Apr 2008. (iAfrica.com)
Just around the corner Apr 14, 2008
"He did that fabulous series The Second Russian Revolution, which is the story of the fall of Communist Russia," Spencer says. "He's done a similar series on the peace agreement in Ireland. Once again, it's getting those key players telling the inside story of how decisions were made. That's very much the approach we want to adopt with The Howard Years.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Beyond the statue's cold frown Apr 12, 2008
Interesting, too, is the importance which Montefiore allows young Soso in the Russian Revolution. In many accounts Stalin has been presented as an also-ran in these early stages, a crude, corrupting figure on the criminal margins of the great cause who, after Lenin's death, would highjack the revolution and lead it away from the noble principles of its founder. (Asia Times Online)
How local heroes helped Soviet Jews Apr 10, 2008
The next year she arranged for a singing telegram to disrupt a Soviet Consulate party commemorating the Russian Revolution. A pretty young woman started to tap-dance, said, "Happy Anniversary" and then stunned the gathering by delivering a sharply worded message from Shcharansky. (San Francisco Chronicle)
* [ CLASSICAL DVD AND CD REVIEWS ] Apr 9, 2008
Theres footage dating from 1923 of a Siberian shaman performing a ritual, fragments of a performance of some rasping 11th-century plainsong (so different from the sweet Western variety), and more film of gorgeous onion-domed churches being razed to the ground during the Russian Revolution. The conclusions these TV-like features come to are unambiguous X some people at least must return to the land or Russia is lost, and Communisms attempt to eradicate religion from the hearts of the Russian... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
A risk-free revolution Apr 2, 2008
And so, like the starving peasants of St Petersburg whose desperation lit the match for the November Russian Revolution of 1917, a financial system starved of capital ignited the great financial system revolution of March 2008. As Japanese economic officials have learned to their misfortune during their now almost 20-year economic malaise, countering an economic contraction that originates as a credit crisis solely through interest rate cuts can be a chancy preposition at best. (Asia Times Online)
* [BOOK REVIEW] 'Fear not for the future, weep not for the past' Mar 30, 2008
Films such as Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and October displayed the Russian Revolution with little regard for dissenting viewpoints, and The Killing Fields showed the agony of Cambodia in the 1970s very directly. Despite Lin's sympathetic analyses of what Taiwan's artists have managed to come up with, it can still be argued that something far more hard-hitting, and of epic stature, in literature and film, is both possible and desirable. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
ROSA BROOKS: Princesses brainwash our daughters Mar 28, 2008
"Girls," I said gently, "I don't want to shock you, but historically, princesses have not always been popular. Consider the Russian Revolution. Or the French. Does the word 'guillotine' ring a bell?""You are a commoner!" my 3-year-old shrieked, and adjusting their glittering tiaras, they ran off to watch "Disney Princess Enchanted Tales" for the 10-billionth time while I cleaned the kitchen. It was not always thus. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Slogging Through Blogs in Search of Truth Mar 27, 2008
On a Handheld Device. SIGN UP FOR FREE NEWS ALERTS. (Newsmax)
Roxy lived with the accelerator floored Mar 23, 2008
The Russian Revolution found her father on the losing side and the family fled to Vienna, crossing the border on forged passports just ahead of the Communist armies. Vienna soon proved less than hospitable with the Nazis taking over Austria in the infamous 1938 Anschluss. (Anchorage Daily News)
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Abelsky s grandmother had worked as a painter for an egg artist before the Russian Revolution. Over the course of the next several years, the woman taught Ilya everything she knew about egg art and he expanded that knowledge by experimenting with different paints, dies and materials. (Kansas City Kansan, KS)
Russia lays new tracks in Korean ties Mar 5, 2008
The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) flared up precisely because of control over Korea and ended - for Russia - with the loss of South Sakhalin and ultimately the headache of the (First) Russian Revolution. The revenge of August 1945 and the joint Soviet-American occupation of Korea incurred many political problems. (Asia Times Online)
Candidates find easy target in NAFTA Mar 4, 2008
Given Medvedev's tender age - 42 - the youngest Russian ruler since the 1917 Russian Revolution, it looks like he may be just a lackey for Putin. It seems as if Russia is a democracy in just name only. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Australian idols go for gold in the Gong Show Mar 1, 2008
It's brilliantly reminiscent of that possibly apocryphal story of the local newspaper that greeted news of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution with a thundering front-page editorial beginning "As we have repeatedly warned the Tsar ". Local government is where you get people suing each other at the drop of a hat; where hatreds are at their most ancient and poisonous, and where one person can ignore another for 17 years based on a misunderstanding over the last Delta Cream on the tea tray. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
With no issues, Dems revert to tripe Feb 28, 2008
For lack of anything new, they now are selling the same hogwash that all leftists have used since the Russian Revolution. - "Change." Just elect me. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Russians rule again at Qatar Open Feb 24, 2008
Anastasia Myskina won back-to-back titles in 2003 and 2004, Sharapova lifted the trophy at her first Doha appearance in 2005, and Nadia Petrova took the title the following year, creating a Russian revolution in the Gulf state. Radwanska, who benefited from the withdrawal of top seed Ana Ivanovic in the third round due to an ankle injury, had her chances to make a match out of her semi-final with Sharapova, but didn't take her break point opportunities. (Aljazeera.Net)
Guarding its loot Feb 23, 2008
First, the art exhibited relates to a 1918 decree relative to works of art confiscated by the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1917. So any claim would not turn on recent successes of claims related to art seized during World War II. Second, it is no easy matter to achieve a judgment against a foreign government based on a demonstrable showing of superior title. (International Herald Tribune)
Russian revolution in driver evolution Feb 20, 2008
The way Dean Knuth figures it, the foundation of his innovative golf driver goes back to those dreaded Soviet submarines. In the late '70s, when he was a young man studying antisubmarine warfare in the Navy's postgraduate school, Knuth learned a lot about how certain metals interacted with other materials. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)
Rising market for Russian icons Feb 17, 2008
Fueled by religious patriotism and encouraged by both the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church, Russia's tycoons are reclaiming masterpieces that were scattered worldwide by the chaos of the Russian Revolution, the flight into exile of those opposed to the Communists, and the illegal export of art, which continued into the 1990s. Russians are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to reacquire all kinds of Russian art, not just icons. (Boston Globe)
Alexander Rodchenko at the Hayward Gallery Feb 10, 2008
He was born in St Petersburg in 1891; his dates coincided perfectly with the Russian revolution, and the spirit of his times seemed to flow through him in a particularly pure form ... Thus, what began in Russian revolutionary times as a heroic exhortation to the world to read more books has ended up, in our times, as an ad for a noisy indie band from Glasgow. (Times Online)
Letters to the Editor (Feb. 5) Feb 7, 2008
livefree wrote on Feb 6, 2008 3:46 PM:" the Russian revolution worked out well except for the United States' interference? What are you smoking? Regal shouldn't be able to influence future use of the Whiteside? Have you ever heard of deed restrictions ompete clauses, not to mention the concept of property rights? Bet those deed restrictions would be ok if you wanted to, for example, protect your home's view. When are the good citizens of Corvallis going to understand that they don't own the... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Dorothy Spencer's 109-year-old life was remarkable Jan 31, 2008
Consider this: Spencer's birth occurred two decades before the Russian revolution. Spencer's life in southwestern Michigan was rich and productive. (Kalamazoo Gazette, MI)
Russia art show opens to public Jan 27, 2008
The collection contains some works taken from private owners after the 1917 Russian Revolution. A law giving immunity from seizure to cultural artefacts lent from abroad was pushed through by the government. (BBC News -- Europe)
Russian show wows art lovers Jan 26, 2008
In the wake of the 1917 Russian Revolution easy cultural exchange ceased. At the core of the exhibition is the remarkable story of two collectors: Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin. (BBC News -- Europe)
Russian art show to open after Britain changes law Jan 23, 2008
"In 1917, the Russian Revolution took place and for better or for worse we can't turn the clock back.". Delocque-Fourcaud vowed not to give up his family's fight for restitution. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Courting disaster Jan 8, 2008
To show you that it is actually true that the Russians executed all their intellectuals in the Russian Revolution in 1917, and low-IQ fascist morons were/are running the place by default (as opposed to the United States, where idiots are actually elected to government offices, with Ron Paul pretty much being the sole exception), from Bloomberg we learn that Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov told the Duma that "Higher-than-anticipated inflation this year made it necessary to budget extra funds... (Asia Times Online)
Venezuela: Humanizing revolution Jan 4, 2008
By this time, however, almost all of the student movements (in Mexico, Cuba, Colombia and elsewhere) were fascinated by the Russian revolution. The students wanted to be like "Sashka Zhegulyov," the young idealist from Leonid Andreyev's novel of the same name, who sacrificed his life for liberty. (International Herald Tribune)
Russia to allow art exhibition to travel to London Jan 1, 2008
Russia's culture agency, Roskultura, had said it feared the art could be seized by courts acting for descendants of people who owned the paintings before they were confiscated after the 1917 Russian revolution. Russia said earlier this month it would scrap plans to loan the pieces by Van Gogh and Matisse to Britain for the exhibition at London's Royal Academy of Arts, adding a new irritant in fraught diplomatic relations between Moscow and London. (Reuters UK)
Russian Exhibit Will Travel to London Jan 1, 2008
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News in brief Dec 31, 2007
Russia had threatened not to release paintings for the Royal Academy show, fearing disputes with people claiming the works were looted from their families during the 1917 Russian revolution. But Purnell yesterday confirmed that "immunity from seizure" legislation due in February would come into force today, meaning the From Russia exhibition, including works by Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh and Picasso, is expected to go ahead. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Our Daily Bread Dec 25, 2007
Perhaps this is what prompted Lenin to promise Russians 'Peace, Land and Bread' during the Russian Revolution. If you are a welcome guest in a Slavic household chances are that you will be greeted with an offering of bread and salt. (India Times, India)
