Anne O’Donnell

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Striking Putilov workers on the first day of the February Revolution, St Petersburg, Russia, 1917. Credit Fine Art Images/Heritage Images, via Getty Images

Red century. A hundred years after the Russian Revolution, can a phoenix rise from the ash heap of history?

Vacant offices. Barren corridors. The hush of work not being done settles across the capital city, a silence of memos untyped, papers unpushed, file cabinets sealed shut. The machine of state is not in use. This is not Washington today; it is Petrograd, Russia, 100 years earlier, where after the Bolsheviks seized power in late October, the bureaucrats of the Russian state — tens of thousands of them — locked their desks and pocketed the keys on their way out the door.…  Seguir leyendo »