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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

Bolshevik revolution

Leon Trotsky (Century Co, NY, 1921 / Wikipedia)
August 19, 2020, 7:54 am
Mexicans mark 80 years since Trotsky was assassinated by Stalin agent
Museum at home where Russian revolutionary was brutally murdered with ice axe still bears marks of earlier hit attempt as exile sought safety
By Natalia Cano and Moises AVILA
In this 1938 photo taken in Washington, DC, Alexander Kerensky examines a passport he signed for an American Red Cross member in 1917. (Public domain)
November 6, 2017, 9:57 pm
Before the Bolsheviks, this man abolished Russia’s Pale of Settlement
100 years after the Russian Revolution, scholars celebrate Alexander Kerensky, the architect of a document securing equal rights for the country’s Jews
By Julie Masis
A Jewish political gathering in Russia around the time of the Russian Revolution. (Courtesy Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow)
October 28, 2017, 3:55 pm
100 years on, international conferences debate Jewish role in Russian Revolution
The Jews in Stalin’s secret police, and where to lay blame for pogroms that killed thousands, are among topics up for discussion in academies from New York to Ukraine
By Julie Masis
Trotsky portrayed as a butcher in the upcoming Russian television series bearing his name. (Courtesy)
September 28, 2017, 3:58 pm
Russian TV series claims Jewish Trotsky masterminded bloody 1917 revolution
Leaving historians unsure whether show is anti-Semitic or simply sensationalist, upcoming drama accuses Marxist thinker of murdering tsar’s family
By Julie Masis
Clockwise, from left: Rhea Clyman's photo in the 1933 Toronto Telegram; a 'Red Train' of carts taking first harvest of produce to Soviet government warehouses; starving children affected by the famine. (All photos public domain)
June 18, 2017, 4:56 am
How a female Jewish journalist alerted the world to Ukraine’s silent starvation
Rhea Clyman’s groundbreaking coverage of the 1932 famine is the subject of a new biography by Prof. Jaroslaw Balan, who is searching for her ‘goldmine’ of a memoir
By Julie Masis
Masha Gessen, author of 'Where the Jews Aren't.' (Lee Towndrow)
October 10, 2016, 10:27 pm
Author opens the Pandora’s box of Russia’s curious autonomous Jewish ghost town
While Chaim Weitzman and Nahum Sokolow were in Britain campaigning for a Zionist state, the Bolsheviks were busy implementing their own vision — in the USSR
By JP O’ Malley
Leon Trotsky in Mexico with some American friends, shortly before his 1940 assassination. (Public domain)
September 19, 2016, 10:00 pm
Trotsky’s day out: How a visit to NYC influenced the Bolshevik revolution
Author Kenneth Ackerman explores the life of the Jewish radical in the weeks leading up to the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government
By JP O’ Malley
Illustrative: Leonid Bichevin as Marc Chagall and Kristina Schneidermann as Bella Rosenfeld Chagall in 'Chagall-Malevich' scene inspired by Chagall's 'Over the Town' painting. (Courtesy of ShiM-Film Pictures)
June 19, 2015, 10:49 am
Actress channels Marc Chagall’s beloved Bella
‘Mystical’ kinship keeps Kristina Schneidermann afloat as she portrays great artist’s wife in Russian film about modernism and revolution
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Moscow's Red Square (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90/File)
January 17, 2013, 7:45 pm
Russia angry over US fines for Jewish collection
US judge rules Moscow should pay the penalty until it complies with 2010 order to return tens of thousands of religious books
From left: Luiza Rozina, 78, Daniil Rozin, 11, Geda Rozina, 100, Maya Rozina, 8, Mark Rozin, 47, Lev Rozin, 24, drink tea at their apartment in Moscow. The four generations of Zimanenko- Rozin's family embody the history of Jews in Russia over the past century, from the restrictions of czarist times to the revival of Jewish culture in Russia today. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
November 16, 2012, 8:02 pm
Moscow museum at heart of Russia’s Jewish culture revival
The trajectory of Jewish life in Russia in the 20th century, from imperial to Soviet times, is embodied in the story of one family
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
Moscow's Red Square (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90/File)
September 10, 2012, 2:05 pm
US opposes Chabad bid to fine Russia for failing to return Jewish archives
In 2010, a NYC court ruled that Russia must return books and manuscripts, but it has refused to do so
By Frederic J. Frommer
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