The Centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
malaysian airline flight 370 will reappear three years to the day after being "lost"	9
mitch mcconnell will make out with secretary of transportation elaine chao	3
nothing will happen, no one will care, everyone who's anyone will keep cool	3
we will all celebrate the 97th birthday of "syria" / 43rd birthday of the ba'ath party	3
we will all celebrate the 34th anniversary of president reagan declaring "russia" an evil empire (sorry, comr	2
comrade combover will declare war on the mexican wall	1
john lydon will wear a homemade "i hate pink panther" sweatshirt to an Anderson Rabin Wakeman concert	1
barack hussein obama will be arrested for plagiarizing melania "trump"	0

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 6 January 2017 22:22 (eight years ago)

Not enough choices.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 7 January 2017 01:58 (eight years ago)

too early to say

― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 7 January 2017 02:08 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqVG0CPkLxE

― Neanderthal, Saturday, 7 January 2017 02:12 (eight years ago)

the most craziness of these options is the flight 370 one, so let's do that

― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Saturday, 7 January 2017 02:57 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

"I have a draft of volume 2, subtitled Waiting for Hitler. I cut 300 pages out of volume 1 before publication (I know this seems unimaginable), even though it felt like sacrificing a limb. I’m going through the same process with volume 2. I have so many discoveries, so many set pieces, but some have to go or the reader will be bludgeoned to death. Then there is volume 3. If it only takes me 5 or 6 years I would be very happy. I might need a year or so off in psychological rehabilitation. The intimacy with this regime is thrilling for the study of power, but it’s a tragic, brutal history."

Stop pissing about and get Vol 2 out sharpish, Kotkin.

― calzino, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:23 (eight years ago)

srsly

― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:33 (eight years ago)

he should just release it at the length it currently is no reader is going to be like oh 1200 pages that's too much but 950 is the perfect number of pages

― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:34 (eight years ago)

Apparently there's a Leninist in the White House, so Bolshevism has won after all.

― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:34 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRq7phYWS7U

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 04:32 (eight years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

https://twitter.com/metadinex/status/838645219151196160

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 00:03 (eight years ago)

Just finished reading Isaac Deutscher's 'Stalin' and - although I'm now in no rush to read it - would like to eventually get around to the Kotkin book. While Deutscher's has its flaws (in large part to the lack of available info at the time), it must have been something to read on its release in 1948 (or around then), especially as he had been on such close personal terms with so many in the 1917 revolution and early Soviet Union.

Not sure this is the place to ask, but has anyone read Andrei Bely's 'Petersburg'? Unintentionally, I've decided to take a deeper dive into Russian history/literature this year, it seems.

― Federico Boswarlos, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:24 (eight years ago)

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