a stark moment–

a blue tulip
emerges from
the earth.
crimson spills,
and a civil war
beheads the
innocent.

Even the smartest and most active of Russia’s current twentysomethings matured into a world of total political apathy, where any kind of enthusiasm for the business of governance was seen as either extremely naïve or cynical. Many sublimated whatever civic urges they had into the so-called theory of small deeds.

The New Decemberists, Russia’s 20-something journalist revolutionaries

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