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How does an authoritarian regime celebrate a revolution?

  • Written by Cynthia Hooper, Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
imageA worker cleans a statue of Vladimir Lenin in St. Petersburg. But how much Russian history gets whitewashed today?Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo

“And what, exactly, is there to be celebrating?” snapped Vladimir Putin’s press secretary on Oct. 25, a little more than a week before the 100th anniversary of what, in Soviet times, was lauded...

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