Ronald Grigor Suny examines the Revolution in Baku, important provincial capital and oil center of the Russian empire. His study of Baku's national and class conflicts, Bolshevism as it developed in the city, and the failure of the...
Fortune鈥檚 knave In the spring of 1924, Stalin鈥檚 nemesis and rival, Lev Trotsky, told the 鈥淥ld Bolshevik鈥� Vladimir Smirnov, 鈥淪talin will become the dictator of the USSR.鈥� 鈥淪talin?鈥� Smirnov reacted. 鈥淏ut he is a mediocrity, a colorless non-entity.鈥� Read More
