Marxists on Horrible Couches.

[Ghyl Tarvoke]

http://marxistsoncouches.tumblr.com/

Brilliance.

[Vasall des Midas]

Lenin at the Smolny. That's a pretty iconic painting. The furniture is what it is because until just before this had been a posh girls' boarding school, not the headquarters of a revolutionary government.

[opebo]

Good find GF - how do you find that sort of thing?  I just first saw tumblr the other day.

[I Am Damo Suzuki]

“dear commissar kollontai,

just making sure the people’s movers know they need to get this other piece of decadent tsarist garbage out of my office too, not just the chairs.

xo,

lenin

The good and old Alexandra Kollontai. I remember that I tried to read some of her writings when I was 12 or 13 years old. One of my aunts owned some books of her. Also there were some Lenins and Gorkys in her library. Personally I prefer "Red Cavalry" by Isaak Babel, and Vladimir Ulyanovich had a terrible bad taste like the trumblr blog exemplifies.

[Sibboleth]

Glorious.

[Grad Students are the Worst]

"how is this interviewer resisting the intensity of herbert’s eros: the repressive demands of his ISA, that strategically placed stack of papers, or an allergy to naugahyde? "

oh internet, you're so gloriously unnecessary <3