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Roy Bainton

Bainton is a former Merchant Navy seaman and author of Honoured by Strangers: The Life and Times of Captain Francis Cromie CB DSO RN (Airlife 2002), The Long Patrol: The British in Germany, 1945-90 (Mainstream Publishing 2003) and A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution (Constable & Robinson 2005).

Red days, white nights

[ people - july 05 ]

"Outside the Kirovsky Zavod there is a crumbling frieze in the bas-relief style of Trajan’s column, depicting the October revolution, a sad reminder that young Russians want little to do with their socialist past."