First we take Manhattan (Moscow) then we take Berlin

American Scholar of the Russian revolution Alexander Rabinowitch lectures to a packed house in Berlin. Photo Mehring Verlag.

This photo reminds me the energy when the late Anatoly Yakobson spoke about poetry in Moscow. People hung from the chandeliers. Things mattered and evidently there are still places were ideas land with impact, not just the dead nails. Der Spiegel on Alexander Rabinowitch – ‘I’m Not Fomenting Revolution, I’m Studying It’.

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