― ResoluteReader, Thursday, 8 March 2007 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry, Thursday, 8 March 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 March 2007 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― impudent harlot, Thursday, 29 March 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― jim, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Resolute Reader, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
― 31g, Monday, 14 May 2007 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Gtf BBC! Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Orlando Figes and Martin Amis talking about the Russian Revolution is garbage tv. No insight - just hackneyed bullshit.
― calzino, Friday, 13 October 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
oops sorry, inappropriate thread.
― calzino, Friday, 13 October 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link
Anybody read China Mieville's book on the Russian Revolution? Is it an S or a D?
― .oO (silby), Friday, 13 October 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
Not read it myself, but a couple of people who I know who have claim it as amazing
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 14 October 2017 06:10 (six years ago) link
calzino had good words about it i think.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 14 October 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
i really dislike his fiction, but i've read enough good things about the RR book and rate his cultural stuff higher as well, so might pick it up.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 14 October 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
I'm reading the Richard Pipes history now and it's useful as long as you take it with a grain of salt for it's clear anti-commie bias.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Saturday, 14 October 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
https://newsocialist.org.uk/after-the-end-of-the-world-re-reading-the-russian-revolution/amp/
Owen Hatherley round-up of a bunch of books.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Sunday, 22 October 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
Excellent overview. I've only read about half a dozen things on NS and I've learned something from any of these - as well as enjoying the writing.
This is Fitzpatrick on Yuri Slezkine (who also had a recent spat with Anne Applebaum wrt her book on the Ukrainian famine (or I should say Applebaum threw a hissy fit - Fitzpatrick doesn't do spats, she seems v cordial). A frightening book that I would be dying to get to grips with, way back then :-(
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 October 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
owen just about resisting the urge to refer to the "strange, hysterical figure of Alexander Kerensky" as a centrist dad there
― mark s, Sunday, 22 October 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link
More like a slug tbh
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 October 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
This is a read:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/how-stalin-became-stalinist
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
a hissy fit over genocide denial. tankie get bent.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 21:55 (six years ago) link
lol
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
I'm just about to finish Mieville's October and have liked it. I haven't yet read any of his fiction (but have a copy of The City in the City on my shelf), but find he writes in a gripping way and is able to successfully synthesize a lot of different information together without sacrificing narrative momentum. I personally found his recounting of the summer months leading up to October to be informative (having lacked any real knowledge about it beforehand), though if you are already familiar with the immediate lead-up to October and the underlying conditions, I'm not sure how engaging you'll find the book. There are some brief, evocative descriptive passages where he brings his more novelistic prose style to bear on the subject matter.
One frustrating thing is that they chose to publish it w/out references/citations, which some people will also undoubtedly find annoying.
Has anyone read or looked into the Slezkine? I hadn't heard about it until reading this review in the NYRB. I will also read the Fitzpatrick linked above. It sounds good...http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/11/23/bolshevisms-new-believers/
― Federico Boswarlos, Monday, 13 November 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
Slezkine's book looks intriguing. I'm waiting for a library copy to become available.
― jmm, Monday, 13 November 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
I would need to figure how to hold it in my hands before I can read that..
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 13 November 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
Radio Essays on Revolution-era artists
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 November 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
This is out in a couple of weeks, and looks good
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0726/9203/products/Earthly_Signs_final_cover_2048x2048.jpg?v=1505750974
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
Got the world of time for Tsvetaeva's prose so bring it.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 November 2017 10:09 (six years ago) link
I just finished "Let the blood of Man Not Flow" by Mikhailo Stelmakh, talking of the Ukraine, set in a tiny village across a few days in 1917. It's really good, though it has some of the problems you'd expect. I am still angry about the (lack of) comeuppance received by a treacherous rich kulak, though I suppose I should perhaps comfort and berate myself in equal measure with knowledge of what would happen to the kulaks in a few years.
― Tim, Friday, 24 November 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
Never even heard of that
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 24 November 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n22/tj-clark/reinstall-the-footlights
Way too much navel-gazing by T.J. Clark for this piece to go anywhere - still its probably the best thing we are likely to read on all of these anniversary shows.
I think he did jump the gun. I would've liked him to see Ilya and Emilia Kabakov show at Tate modern (http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ilya-and-emilia-kabakov) and Red Star Over Russia (http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/red-star-over-russia). I saw the former briefly on Saturday. There was A LOT, and a lot of play, and different types of play at that.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 December 2017 11:59 (six years ago) link
This looks interesting:
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/15/the-house-of-government-by-yuri-slezkine-review-russian-revolution?__twitter_impression=true
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Saturday, 16 December 2017 09:10 (six years ago) link