[lbo-talk] Sipping Wine (was Zizek: "Where to look for revolutionary potential?" )

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 18 07:31:13 PDT 2007


--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Mar 18, 2007, at 10:13 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > the revolt under Stepan Razin
>
> I've always loved Shostakovich's piece about his
> execution - when his
> head rolls off, laughing at the Tsar!
>

There a great scene in Quiet Flows the Don where the Cossacks are sitting around bemoaning their current shoddy state (in 1914) in comparison with Real Cossacks like Stepan Razin and Emil Pugachev.

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