Bolshevik Revolution
Moldova Celebrates 18th Anniversary of Independence
August 27, 2009On 27 august, the Republic of Moldova celebrates the 18th anniversary of its independence today. Moldova's Declaration of Independence was proclaimed in Chişinău on 27 August 1991 (see DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE). It reaffirmed the right of the people...
Vladimir Putin’s ‘Vulgar Eurasianism’ Has Chekist Roots
June 08, 2009By Paul Goble Vladimir Putin’s comments during his recent visit to the graves of Denikin, Ilin, and Shmelyov at Moscow’s Donskoy Monastery Cemetery represent a kind of “extremely vulgar Eurasianism,” one whose full dimensions...
November 7th Must Be Recalled Not as a Triumph but as a Tragedy, Because of Its Victims
November 07, 2008By Paul Goble The Moscow journal "New Times" points out in its current issue that "almost no one except the communists now marks November 7th," the anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. But it argues that it should...