Literature
How Lenin’s love of literature shaped the Russian Revolution
By Tariq Ali
25 March 2017
Literature shaped the political culture of the Russia in which Vladimir Ilyich Lenin grew up. Explicitly political texts...
Dostoevsky’s Century: Russia prepares its Revolution
'Crime and Punishment' 150 years on
By Victoria Drey
Dec 28, 2016
First published in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel about a St. Petersburg student who kills...
N.A. Berdyaev: Spirits of the Russian Revolution
We are lost. What are we to do?
Into the field the devil evidently doth take us,
Spinning us round and round...