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Leon Trotsky (; born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and Soviet politician whose particular strain of Marxist thought is known as Trotskyism.
Initially supporting the Menshevik Internationalists faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, he joined the Bolsheviks (majority) just before the 1917 October Revolution, immediately becoming a leader within the Communist Party. He would go on to become one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution.During the early days of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army, with the title of People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs. He became a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918–1922).After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and against the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was removed as Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs (January 1925), removed from the Politburo (October 1926), removed from the Central Committee (October 1927), expelled from the Communist Party (November 1927), exiled to Alma–Ata (January 1928), and exiled from the Soviet Union (February 1929). As the head of the Fourth International, Trotsky continued to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union while in exile.
Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City by Ramón Mercader, a Spanish-born NKVD agent. On 20 August 1940, Mercader attacked Trotsky with an ice axe and Trotsky died the next day in a hospital. Mercader acted upon instruction from Stalin and was nearly beaten to death by Trotsky's bodyguards, and spent the next 20 years in a Mexican prison for the murder. Stalin presented Mercader with an Order of Lenin in absentia.Trotsky's ideas formed the basis of Trotskyism, a major school of Marxist thought that opposes the theories of Stalinism. He was written out of the history books under Stalin, and was one of the few Soviet political figures who was not rehabilitated by the government under Nikita Khrushchev in the 1950s.
Yuri Andropov | Wikipedia audio article
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Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (; Russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Андро́пов, tr. Júrij Vladímirovič Andrópov, IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ɐnˈdropəf]; 15 June [O.S. 2 June] 1914 – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Following the 18-year rule of the late Leonid Brezhnev, Andropov served in the post for only 15 months, from November 1982 until his own death in February 1984. Earlier in his career, Andropov served as the Soviet ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957, during which time he was involved in the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, and then Chairman of the KGB from 1967 until 1982.
Sloboda Ukraine | Wikipedia audio article
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Sloboda Ukraine (Russian: Слободская Украина, tr. Slobodskaya Ukraina; Ukrainian: Слобідська Україна, translit. Slobids'ka Ukrayina) or Slobozhanshchyna (Ukrainian: Слобожанщина, IPA: [slɔbɔˈʒɑnʃtʃɪnɐ]; Russian: [sləbɐˈʐanʲɕːɪnə]) is a historical region, now located in Northeastern Ukraine and Southwestern Russia. It developed and flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries on the southwestern frontier of the Tsardom of Russia. In 1765 it was converted into the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate.
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Sloboda Ukraine (Russian: Слободская Украина, tr. Slobodskaya Ukraina; Ukrainian: Слобідська Україна, translit. Slobids'ka Ukrayina) or Slobozhanshchyna (Ukrainian: Слобожанщина, IPA: [slɔbɔˈʒɑnʃtʃɪnɐ]; Russian: [sləbɐˈʐanʲɕːɪnə]) is a historical region, now located in Northeastern Ukraine and Southwestern Russia. It developed and flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries on the southwestern frontier of the Tsardom of Russia. In 1765 it was converted into the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate.
Russian politics. ''Duel'' talk show. Zhirinovsky vs Raihelgauz. ''Gorbachev'' (English subs)
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One more episode of ''Duel'' talk show with Vladimir Zhirinovsky participating.
This time he is going against Iosif Raihelgauz, some movie and theater director I've never heard before. The subject of this show is: Michail Gorbachev, and the role he played, mainly in the collapse of the Soviet Union, but also about good and bad things he had done.
For Zhirinovsky, this subject is almost as painful as October Revolution of 1917. So, he is like usual using his style. I gotta say, that he have been on this show for so many times, his experience really counts. One of Raihelgauz's supporters made him angry, talking about things Zhirinovsky tired of hearing of, and when Zhirinovsky responds to him, you can see that his hands were actually shaking! Raihelgauz, on the other hand, seeing that he's losing, at one moment I think he was ready to start crying. But of course he is no match. I think Zhirinovsky even realized it and backed down a little.
The arbitrator was some historian that repeated everything twice for some reason. He reminded me Johny ''Two Times'' from ''Goodfellas'' - ''I'm gonna get the paper get the paper'' lol.
Well... And Soloviev as always in his style.
Oh, and keep your hand on ''Pause'' button. They often talk at the same time, so you might need a moment to read everything.
This show was aired live on 30/05/2013.
Enjoy!
Thanks for watching!
Abbreviations:
CPSU - Communist Party of Soviet Union
PCO – Public Communication Office
DVAR – Department of VISA’s And Registration
SCSE - State Committee on the State of Emergency
CCCPSU - Central Committee of Communist Party of Soviet Union
MSU – Moscow State University
IM – Interior Ministry
CPC – Communist Party of China
DC – District Committee
TC – Town’s Committee
Remarks:
1. 6-th constitutional article of 1977: Ruling and directing force of Soviet society, core of its political system, state's and social organizations, is Communist Party of the Soviet Union. CPSU exists for people and serves people. Communist party defines general perspective of society, line of its foreign and domestic policy of the USSR, governing the great development activities of Soviet people, gives it planned and scientifically proven basis to its struggle for communism prevail. All political parties organizations are operating within Constitution of the USSR.
More or less.
2. Foros - city in Crimea in which The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Putsch or August Coup, was a coup d'état attempt by a group of members of the Soviet Union's government to take control of the country from Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.
You can find more info about this as ''1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt''.
3. As far as I know, there is no English translation of this book.
4. Vityok - Is the name Victor. Vityok is used when guys on the street call you. Like Dominic - Dom (Yeah, it's from Fast and Furious. I can't think of anything else right now).
5. Snop - in Russian means sheaf.
6. Glenfilda Petrovna - I don't know if that is real character from the novel, but I think that's what he said. I never read that novel. I tried googling, but I haven't been able to find anything relative to it.
7. That’s what I’ve heard.
For trolls: Go to hell.
Nikolay Platoshkin. Fragments of the interviews. Николай Платошкин. Фрагменты интервью.
Fragments of the interviews with the leader of the Russian Movement for New Socialism.
Фрагменты интервью с лидером российского движения за Новый Социализм.