HeyJaredPearse-ing the Gloom
Current affairs, esp. in Europe; also commentary on historical and religious issues.
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The Red Experiment (opens the original)
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By 1922: the preliminaries had been achieved.Russian Revolution: check.Tsar and his family killed: check.Civil War won amidst immense loss of life: check.Soviet Union formally inaugurated: check.Now to construct the Communist utopia!Well, the first thing to be done after all the carnage was a New Economic Policy (NEP): capitalism — which was reinstated for a few years, to get the economy moving again.The second thing to be done (late 1920s) was to reverse that reversal, close down private busine
Don Pearse at 100 (opens the original)
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My Dad — the best man I ever knew — would have been a hundred today.That last phrase is one I find it hard to write with a straight face ... because of a family ‘in’ joke — that he started.Thanks for reading Pearse-ing the Gloom! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="button primary" type="submit" va
Here to stay? Britain is heading for unstable government (opens the original)
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How bad was Stalin? Many Soviet people welcomed the Nazis (opens the original)
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Revolution at Full Flood (opens the original)
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Making a revolution is one thing; gaining proper control over the country is quite another. Especially when the country in question covers a sixth of the planet’s land surface.The Russian Revolution of February 1917 had managed the first — but not the second. To be fair, the provisional government’s problems were made worse because it remained embroiled in World War I, and proved no more adept in fighting it than had the Tsar.So, when Lenin’s Bolsheviks made a further revolution in October, they
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