It was recently brought to this Blogger’s attention that if he stays alive a mite longer, he may well  be  the last living American to have shaken hands with Alexander Kerensky . Kerensky was a good guy, a Russian version of American President Jimmy Carter; he was Premier of the government which fell to the Bolsheviks. That might well be true, for this Blogger was at least fifteen years younger than any other participant at the seminar.   Kerensky could have saved the world from Communism; for as Premier, he had Lenin in his jail, at his mercy. But he did not disappear him, for Lenin was a family friend, who had been taught by Kerensky’s father.  Such is history.   This Blogger may also soon be the last living American to know men who participated in the Communist Red Terror of the Bolsheviks. This Blogger’s father knew many old Trotskyites; before they were Trotskyites, they were Bolsheviks. Stalinists   chased into exile, or the Gulag or onto their ...

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...