Foreign Affairs
These Ghostly Images Of The Russian Revolution Then And Now Are Haunting
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Tuesday marks the 100-year anniversary of when Vladimir Lenin and his followers seized control of Russia, launching a brutal experiment that would ultimately fail miserably.
Nov. 7 is the centennial of the second of two revolutions in the 1917 Bolshevik movement that overthrew the provisional government in Russia, clearing the way for the rise of the Soviet Union.
Lenin and his band of leftist revolutionaries promised to build a communist utopia that would empower the proletariat against the wealthy bourgeoisie. He promised a bright future that was eerily bleak and littered with corpses of millions.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty compiled images of locations in Russia from 1917 and today to give readers a sense of history on the 100th anniversary of the revolution that changed Russia forever.
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