Posts Tagged ‘Russia’

The Darkness of Bright Life

Dominia…

The Prophecy

Dominia…

الشرطة الروسية في قفص الاتهام

History of the Russian Revolution (Arabic) Part 2/2 تاريخ الثورة الروسية بقلم ليون تروتسكي – الجزء

Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution Part 2/2 in Arabic is now available on the Center for Socialist Studies website…

Part 1/2 is also available here…

Color photography from Russia in the early 1900’s

Via Captured…

The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii traveled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russian people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He traveled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900’s. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, after the Russian Revolution had destroyed the Empire he spent years documenting. To learn more about the Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who purchased his glass negatives in 1948 after his death in 1944.

Migrants to Russia face discrimination

History of the Russian Revolution تاريخ الثورة الروسية

For the first time online, Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution is now available in Arabic…

بقايا التجارب النووية.. معاناة

الحرب القذرة في روسيا

إتهامات للحكومة الروسية بالضلوع في سلسلة من أعمال الخطف والإغتيالات ضد نشطاء حقوق الإنسان الذين لعبوا دورا في فضح إنتهاكات الجيش الروسي بالشيشان..

Dissent beginning to spread across Russia as crisis bites

Europe’s Intifada continues…

The Kremlin’s rule is beginning to look much shakier than at any time since Vladimir Putin came to power, after a series of protests in cities across its vast landmass this weekend by Russians disgruntled about the economy. And as the country starts to feel the effects of the global credit crunch, there are also signs of a growing rift between Prime Minister Putin, and his hand-picked successor as President, Dmitry Medvedev…
Nearly every major city had a street rally, and though most were low key, the unusual scale of dissatisfaction is likely to worry the authorities. The Russian economy has been hit hard by falling oil prices, many oligarchs have seen billions of pounds wiped off the value of their shares, and ordinary Russians are feeling the pinch as factories struggle to stay afloat and companies lay off employees.