November 2017 is the 100 th  Anniversary of the RED OCTOBER 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. How can an event be commemorated in  November as the 100 th  Anniversary of an event which occurred in October? Czarist Russia used a Julian Calendar to mark the passing of the days, so events which occurred in October for Russians, happened in November for everyone else. In the New York City, in the Brooklyn of his youth, there were many defeated Russians, White Russians(monarchists) Old Bolsheviks, Trotskyites, followers of Zinoviev and Kamenev, Old Believers, Cadets, and Social Revolutionaries. Many peoples rend their societies over religious conflict; the Russians tore their society apart over a specific religious conflict, how to make the sign of the cross correctly, ah the Russians. This Blogger has an affinity for understanding Russian thought, apparent ever since he read THE LAY OF IGOR’S CAMPAIGN. The first thing one must consider about the Bolshevik Revolution wh

Fyodor Dostoyevsky figured it out this way:  the Devil certainly exists, and if the Devil exists, God certainly exists, for there can be no existing Devil without an existing God. The astrophysicists at CERN just announced that the Universe should not exist; therefore God does exist, for without God anti-matter  would have destroyed the  Universe at Creation. This Blogger became interested in astrophysics in the summer of 1988; he happened to be in West Berlin, and would have to get back to West Germany by taking a train through Communist East Germany. The Soviet Army had a massive concentration of troops at Magdeburg ( the  hills were black with Soviet field tents) waiting to attack NATO across the Northern German Plain. It was common knowledge that the STASI ( the Communist East German Secret Police) would stop the train outside of Magdeburg to size up the passengers. Under those circumstances, the choice of reading material would be crucial; this Blogger could not be found re