Archive for July, 2006
The Little Table
Posted by ajit balakrishnan in Holiday on July 14, 2006
…Lenin’s table at St Petersburg from where he directed the 1917 Revolution
This is where Lenin operated from during the 1917-1918 period.
You could call it the age of innocence of Communism. Lenin and his fellow revolutionaries genuinely wanted to run
In 1918, the capital was moved from
“It’s considered hip among Russian teenagers to wear these CCCP T-shirts”, said the pretty sales-woman approvingly, when I stepped up to buy a bright red T-shirt emblazoned ‘CCCP’”.