Books on the Russian Revolution: S and D

Got the world of time for Tsvetaeva's prose so bring it.

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.

Never even heard of that

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.

This looks interesting:

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/15/the-house-of-government-by-yuri-slezkine-review-russian-revolution?__twitter_impression=true