1917? #240 By Hank Silverberg For a few hours this past week, I started searching the web and some of my history textbooks looking for details on the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. That was the last time anyone inside Russia challenged one of its totalitarian rulers. It came in the midst of World War One when Russia was losing badly, and its economy was falling apart. The Russians withdrew from the war and spent the next five years with factions fighting each other. The end result was the Soviet Union, Stalin's mass murder purges, his pact with Hitler where they got betrayed, Stalingrad and eventually the Cold War. You can check the specific historical details on the web if you don't already know them. This time around, the little military threat to Putin from Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was interesting, but it did not result in a regime change, at le