russian revolution

Take a country house, some beautiful English landscapes, a family secret, some fabulously stirring music, and a rich sense of history, and what do you get? A Stephen Poliakoff, of course. Pretty much no one else, these days, gets carte blanche, or massive budgets, at the BBC.

to throw light on a piece of history I felt very strongly about – on what a very close-run thing it was that we didn't do a deal with Hitler, and that Churchill only became Prime Minister by a whisker.   -Stephen Poliakoff

 

Bud Ossey turned 90 earlier this month. He and his wife of 67 years, Maxine, celebrated in the Bay Area, watching Oregon State beat California. How else?  

Of all the leaders of the Bolshevik revolution, Leon Trotsky commanded the most compelling public presence and, eventually, exerted the most lasting influence on Western intellectuals. Still, the arc of his life story moved from pre-eminence to thwarted ambition and ideological collapse. Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on a Ukrainian farm, Trotsky grew up to became a spellbinding orator and a magnificent writer who, with Vladimir Lenin, propelled the Bolshevik takeover of the Russian government in Novembe

was often given the benefit of the doubt by authors who might otherwise have exercised their skepticism.   -Leon Trotsky

 

University of Central Oklahoma presents "Three Sisters" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at Mitchell Hall Theater.

It is just a beautiful, funny, charming play. Some people consider this the most important play of the 20th century. I do   -John Dennis

 

The mediocrity of the Ghanaian politics coupled with the unpatriotic way it is conducted is an impingement on the social and economic advancement of Ghana. The unethical attitude to politics by Ghanaians is disgusting. The thought of it alone is enough to bring the visitation of cardiac arrest upon a weak heart.  

AZERBAIJANI FM Today http://www.today.az/news/society/57376.html Nov 11 2009 Azerbaijan Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has agreed to hold a next meeting with Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan in one of the European capitals, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said. "The venue and date of the meeting will be set in a couple of days," the minister said. He said no new proposals on conflict resolution have been made.

We have discussed basic principles for the last five years. Unfortunately, Armenian side raises issues that were debated and negotiated earlier   -Elmar Mammadyarov

 

Kurdish Globe, Erbil, Iraq Nov 8 2009 Kurdish nationalism in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution Russian soldiers sympathetic to the Bolshevik cause carry banners bearing Marxist slogans. Bolsheviks found a welcome audience among the Imperial troops sent by the Tzar to fighting a losing war in the freezing winter. Hulton / Getty By Salah Bayaziddi The Kurdish Globe Indeed, the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 was a secret agreement.  

We thought it meant the end of international contention. We thought it meant the nuclear menace was no more. We thought it meant Russia and America, the two powers of the future envisioned by de Tocqueville, could be friends.  

THE wreck of a Barrow-built submarine missing for 93 years has been found. Barrow Submariners' Association secretary Barrie Downer said the find will bring closure for the descendants of the 33 men – including three Russians – who died aboard HMS E18. He added that he hopes the sub will be designated a war grave and left alone. The boat, which went missing in June 1916, was discovered on the bottom of the Baltic sea off the coast of Estonia.

It is very good news because obviously it disappeared in fairly mysterious circumstances. It went out on patrol but never came back so no-one really knew what happened.   -Barrie Downer