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From Russia with love: Lenin’s Letter to American Workers
November 21, 2017Just before Christmas, on December 21, 1917, a strange freighter pulled into Elliott Bay in Seattle. This vessel bore an unfamiliar flag—a red flag.
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This week in history: Holland Tunnel opens to traffic
November 15, 2017Tunnel construction required workers to spend large amounts of time in the caisson under high pressure of up to 47.5 pounds per square inch, which was thought to be necessary to prevent river water from entering...
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The Russian Revolution, American repression…and an invasion, too
November 14, 2017Welcome to the confluence of the Russian Revolution and repression in the U.S.
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The Soviet past we never knew
November 6, 2017The real Russian Revolution had, at its heart, a liberting potential and a Marxism rooted in real-world practice that still holds lessons a century later.
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The democratic aspirations of October 1917 continue to inspire today
November 6, 2017John Reed, the great American labor journalist and a founder of the Communist Party USA, was the first to bring this country the news of what had happened in Russia on November 7, 1917. In his...
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