http://www.metafilter.com/tags/doukhobors Posts tagged with 'doukhobors' at MetaFilter. Tue, 13 May 2008 23:25:51 -0800 Tue, 13 May 2008 23:25:51 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/71630/Canadas%2DRussian%2DRevolution <i>It stands as one of the more unusual turning points of the Cold War, thanks mostly to the surprise appearance of several naked middle-aged women.</i> <a href="http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.06-taking-the-cure-doukhobor-canada-christopher-shulgan/1/">Taking The Cure</a>: How a group of British Columbian anarchists inspired democracy in Russia. More information on the Doukhobors at the <a href="http://www.doukhobor-museum.org/">Doukhobor Discovery Centre</a> and the <a href="http://www.doukhobor.org/">Doukhobor Genealogy Website</a>. Alexander Yakovlev died in 2005. Here's his <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4353766.stm">obituary</a> as presented by the BBC. For more information about his place in history, see <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB168/index.htm">Alexander Yakovlev and the Roots of Soviet Reforms</a>, a collection of documents housed at the National Security Archive at George Washington University. And for those who can read Russian, <a href="http://www.alexanderyakovlev.org/">The Alexander Yakovlev Foundation</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71630 Tue, 13 May 2008 23:25:51 -0800 alexanderyakovlev britishcolumbia canada coldwar democracy doukhobors glasnost history perestroika russia sovietunion amyms