Category: Russia

Revolution begins at home

6 October, 2008 (12:46) | History, Housing, Russia, Speculation | No comments

In 1975, the officers and crew of Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (Sentry) mutinied, under the leadership of their erstwhile Marxist political officer Valery Sablin, who steamed her out of Riga into the Baltic Sea with visions of recreating the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion, an idealistic uprising against what the sailors saw as the Bolshevik betrayal of revolutionary [...]

Government architecture

21 April, 2008 (07:07) | Architecture, Configuration, Global, Innovations, Russia, Tenure, Trotsky | No comments

[On Patriots’ Day, which is a holiday in Boston – as it should be! –
 

Finding a decent apartment in Boston is a marathon, not a sprint
 
–my quirky sense of humor suggests that we should highlight the

 
Housing endures.  It endures as a physical space, and as a cultural artifact, and as an economic asset.  It’s [...]