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Returning

26 Thursday Feb 2015

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I am returning

 

I am returning

 

Nyesviz

 

Vulitsa Pervoe Maya

 

Vulitsa Liebknecht

 

Lenin

 

Bazaarnaya Marq

 

Park Slavy Komsomola

 

Babushki do you remember my people

 

do you remember my family

What Do Europe’s Podemos and Syriza Movements Know That Many US Black Activists Don’t?

21 Saturday Feb 2015

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What Do Europe’s Podemos and Syriza Movements Know That Many US Black Activists Don’t?.

“Really living life” vs the Russian Revolution: Watching Doctor Zhivago fifty years on

01 Sunday Feb 2015

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A worker at large

When you’re trapped in an aeroplane seat for twelve hours, you will watch almost any movie to take your mind off the noise of the engines and the thought of the hours of immobility ahead. It was under circumstances such as these that I watched Doctor Zhivago recently, almost 50 years after its original release. I was a child when it first came out, forbidden by both state and parental censorship from seeing it, but I do remember that it caused quite a stir, in the Cold War atmosphere of the time. I remember the adults around me discussing it, if not the content of those discussions.

Poster for the movie Doctor Zhivago 1965

The book of the same title on which it was based, by Soviet poet and novelist Boris Pasternak, had been subject to an intense and spiteful campaign of censorship by the Soviet authorities, who spared to…

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