What became of Latvia’s left ? | openDemocracy
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/will-mawhood/what-became-of-latvias-left
L’article est très intéressant, mais j’avoue une faiblesse, je référeence aussi pour l’illustration, une magnifique œuvre assez précoce de Gustav Klucis (the Red Latvian Riflemen, 1918)
The past month has seen a flurry of articles on the anniversary of October 1917 in St Petersburg and their consequences — many illuminating, some rather less so. Illuminating or not, the emphasis has usually been on the Russian in Russian revolution — the impact on the modern Russian state. But St Petersburg was an imperial capital at the time, ruling not only over the cities of the modern Russian Federation, but Tashkent, Tbilisi and Tallinn as well. It was very often in these peripheral regions that the revolution was most enthusiastically received.
Indeed, the corner of the empire that was perhaps the reddest of all was not Russian at all. It was a place that very rarely comes up these days when the left is discussed, a country where the right appears to have a lock on both the government and the retelling of history — Latvia.