On November 7, 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin led the Bolsheviks on a successful revolution and created what would become the USSR, but as this 100th anniversary arrives, Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin are silent, even dismissive of its significance. Cynthia Hooper, associate professor of history, analyzed the Russian state’s behavior in an article for The Conversation, in which she discussed how the USSR’s controversial history and eventual dissolution leads the Kremlin to defend the idea that “the mistakes, abuses, and countless individual tragedies of history should not drag the country down.”
Read the piece on The Conversation's website here.
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