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  Michael Burleigh

• 23 Oct 2017
• In Politics
•    Putin, Russia

Czar Putin

As the centenary of the October Revolution approaches, Russia’s current rulers have decided that ambiguity towards the events of 1917 is the second best response, after trying to ignore it. Ideally it would be left to ‘experts’  to deliberate, which is probably why planning official commemorations only commenced in December 2016.