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The democratic aspirations of October 1917 continue to inspire today
November 6, 2017John Reed, the great American labor journalist and a founder of the Communist Party USA, was the first to bring this country the news of what had happened in Russia on November 7, 1917. In his...
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The women who helped lead the Russian Revolution
November 6, 2017Lenin would later say: “Without them, we would not have been victorious.”
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Eisenstein’s “Ten Days That Shook the World” screens in L.A.
November 3, 2017As the grand finale to the Ten Films That Shook the World film series , the Los Angeles Workers Center and Hollywood Progressive present Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 revolutionary classic.
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“Potemkin,” a film from yesterday and an audience from today
October 31, 2017What brought so many people together for an old silent film on a drizzly Monday evening?
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This week in history: The Protestant Reformation’s 500th birthday
October 31, 2017By the mid-16th century the Protestant attacks on Rome led to widespread depictions, in both word and imagery, of "good" against "bad" church.
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