Russia

Tony Rocchi24.08.2024

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Political terrorism in the Russian Empire lasted from 1866 to 1911. This period was equivalent to two generations. One can divide the history of Russian terrorists into the story of the Great Known Generation of the members of the People’s Will from 1879-1894 and the story of the Great Unknown Generation of terrorists from different […]

Viktor Alksnis20.08.2024

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are taking civilians captive in the Kursk region and hijack them to Ukraine. In the occupied territories of the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are conducting purges and taking all the men to Ukraine. It is unclear for what purpose this is being done. According to one version, they will […]

Vladimir Morozov17.08.2024

From the fine words spoken yesterday at the meeting with the president to the realities of life. One of the most painful issues for residents of border areas, especially those two hundred thousand Kursk and Belgorod residents who were resettled and whose houses are now being destroyed, are loans and mortgages. On August 12, a […]

Tony Rocchi17.08.2024

There are different ways of dividing the history of terrorism in Russia between 1866 and 1911. In my last article, I suggested that one way to look at the history of political terrorism in the Russian Empire is to divide it into two main periods. The period of the Great Known runs from 1879-1894. It […]

Tony Rocchi13.08.2024

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One way to look at the history of political terrorism in the Russian Empire is to divide it into two main periods. The period of the Great Known runs from 1879-1894. It is the history of the People’s Will (Народная Воля) whose members assassinated Tsar Alexander II on March 1, 1881. The period of the […]

Kirill Benediktov09.08.2024

16 years ago, on August 8, 2008, Russia also found itself under attack. Georgia, backed by NATO and Israeli instructors, attacked Russia-friendly South Ossetia and killed Russian peacekeepers in Tskhinvali. Russia’s response was devastating and swift, the Georgian punitive forces were not spared and few were taken prisoner. Four days later, Russian tanks were 40 […]

Tony Rocchi02.08.2024

The ambivalence of many conservatives and reactionaries in Russia about political terrorism possibly did more harm to the government than we can imagine. In the long run, conservative ambivalence contributed to the collapse of the autocracy in the February Revolution of 1917. It is undoubtable that most conservatives and reactionaries condemned left-wing terrorism, but many […]

Natalia Tanshina21.07.2024

Not about the “elite”, but about the genuine Russian elite!! I’m proofreading my article about Princess Lieven. She lived abroad almost all her life, first for 22 years in London, with her ambassador husband, then in Paris. She left for France without the permission of Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich, and he wrote to her husband in […]

Tony Rocchi19.07.2024

Support from liberals and moderate socialists and ambivalent attitudes by conservatives enabled the massiveness and continuity of left-wing terrorism in Russia between 1901-1911. In many respects, these tendencies already began in the first wave of political terrorism in Russia from 1878-1894. Just how much do we know about liberal support for terrorism and conservative ambivalence […]

Lucy Dickerson17.07.2024

It doesn’t matter what he said before… Trump, before his first election, also said a lot of things — about Putin, and about improving relations with Russia, and then he took it and replayed everything, and was the first to start supplying weapons to Ukraine, and began to destroy diplomatic relations, and the consulates under […]

Two Generations of Terrorists in the Russian Empire

Purges in Kursk

Is Putin’s Order The Law?

The Three Stages of Terrorism in the Russian Empire

One Great Known and One Great Unknown — Terrorism in Russia

Why Ukraine is not Georgia?

Conservative Ambivalence about Terrorism in Russia: One More Aspect of the Terrorism Great Unknown

A Little About the Aristocracy and the Elite

The Mass Criminalization of Educated Society: one aspect of the Great Unknown of Political Terrorism in Russia

“Hillbilly Elegy” as Political Ideology

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old