The Return of the Bolsheviks
Forget Rome, look to Russia in 1918
“Social life followed its usual course, and it seemed as if these people were merely to be the spectators and not the victims of the drama to come." - Pyotr Wrangel describing Russia’s elite as they watched the Bolsheviks begin their slaughter.
We learned communism wrong. History class and popular discourse focused on the “socialism” aspect of the Soviet…
