Category: USSR

1918 Decree on Land

GOODWILL AND THE RUSSIAN STATE

Ars Notoria, 1st January 20264th March 2026

Photograph Phil Hall (1984) Putin should stop kissing icons and start jailing more oligarchs by Richard Steinhardt To the extent that Vladimir Putin seeks to restore legitimacy to the current Russian state, he must confront its foundational crimes and confiscate the assets stolen by the criminal oligarchic class. President Vladimir…

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The USA broke Afghanistan, now it must own the mess.

Ars Notoria, 17th October 2025

The USA Bugs Out By Phil Hall and Tony Hall The decisive battle that the USA has lost is the battle to rebuild Afghanistan and win hearts and minds. Let’s start by injecting a little historical memory into these farcically simplistic and convenient narratives of invasion, counter invasion and withdrawal….

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Alfred Rosenberg

Divide and Collapse: From Bandera to BRICS in 80 Years

Ars Notoria, 5th July 202529th July 2025

by Phil Hall The history of Ukrainian nationalism, in one of its earliest iterations (and most virulent forms) rose out of the civil war in the early 1920s when 22 armies invaded the Soviet Union in an attempt to overthrow the Soviet government. Britain was the main backer and enemy…

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portrait of an eldery man in a military cap

Long live the victory of the USSR over Fascism

Ars Notoria, 8th May 202529th July 2025

Photo – Paulo Oliveira, Pexels The USSR’s Victory Was Communist, Not Nationalist by Phil Hall For modern communists and humane socialists, the situation in Ukraine represents a triple shit show. On one side, there is the right-wing, recidivist Russian chauvinism that denigrates socialism, progressive ideals, and even Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich…

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Personal experience

PART 1: WHAT WAS THE USSR?

Ars Notoria, 10th May 202429th July 2025

The Icebreaker Yamal, made in a Leningrad shipyard in 1986, photo Pink floyd88 A personal view by Philip Hall In the first place, anyone who has been involved in the struggle against colonialism, neo-colonialism and imperialism in Latin America, Africa and Asia and in the more neglected parts of Europe…

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‘It’s delightful! Very, very funny … Anyone with a true sense of him should find it wholly engaging!’

Stephen Fry

What would Oscar Wilde make of modern day Britain? And what would modern day Britain make of a latter day Oscar Wilde?

In this beautifully illustrated graphic novel, Dan Pearce brings the celebrated and notorious Victorian wit a century into the future, with great humour and a Wildean sense of mischief in his own right.

“J. W. Wood’s stories evince a gift for the quotidian, employing brilliant conceits and mischievous turns of phrase which enrich the writing at every point. Capturing the frustration of curtailed lives and the grim horrors of the corporate world, Wood presents a meta-fictional universe in which the rich realise their folly and we control computers, not the other way round.”

—Julian Stannard, award-winning poet and author of The University of Bliss (Sagging Meniscus Press, USA, 2024)

That Was Hugo Blythe MP is the professional journal, presented in diary form, of government researcher Alaric Casteele. Casteele’s diary is a skilful interchange between events in his domestic life, and his meticulous eavesdropping into the political intrigues levelled against his boss Hugo Blythe, a government minister pivotal in the New Labour project, climaxing as a general election approaches.

Delightful, informative and sceptical – but never cynical – The Rights of Man And Fish nods to Voltaire, Günter Grass and Paul Torday’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, while maintaining a humour and breadth of vision entirely its own. Join Gisella as she finds out what makes the ideal society based on what she learns from a millennium of human error, intrigue and haute cuisine. Wittily illustrated by Pete Field, this work is a tour de force.

Congratulations to one of our regular contributors, Andy Hall, for winning the prestigious Trieste Photo Days award for best author. The competitions was judged by the renowned photographer Harry Gruyaert, who said:

'I chose this work because it's the kind of work I would have liked to have taken myself. His compositions stand out; he's pulling order from chaos and some of these images are truly powerful.'

Prospero in his cell busy indwelling, might have time to ponder the mystery of the myth that is Bob Dylan. He is concealed behind a dark blue velvet curtain embroidered in gold; Dylan with a megaphone standing on a stool, blown up from Minnesota.

Phil Hall

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