In Komsomolskaya Pravda, Andrei Ryabtsev notes a close correlation between average housing prices and Navalny’s vote share in Moscow’s districts – and tries to find out why that might be the case. Why did they vote for Navalny in the centre, and for Sobyanin in the dormitory suburbs? The election results for Moscow’s mayor have […]
Translation: Hurrah for the Bourgeois Candidate!
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was written by Moscow Exile for Russian Spectrum on September 10, 2013 .No Comments
National Comparisons: The People
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for AK's Blog, AK's Travels on April 8, 2011 .39 Comments
The second part of my series comparing Russia, Britain, and the US focuses on the people themselves. What are their strengths and foibles? How do they vary by class, region, race, and religion? How do they view each other and other countries and peoples? What do they eat, drink, and watch? Where do they travel […]
Was the French Revolution primarily a Class Struggle?
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for AK's Blog on April 4, 2009 .3 Comments
The classic Marxist argument holds than an emerging bourgeois class, its wealth based on commerce, industry and capital accumulation, was constrained and frustrated in its political ambitions by the nobility. France was divided into Three Estates, the Third Estate which bore the taille (the main direct tax), the nobility (subject only to the capitation poll […]
