The Russian Revolutions Lessons for Modern Russia

Deutsche Welle looks at what lessons can be learned from the Russian revolution. Catherine, I'm a bit confused here because I thought lessons happened in classrooms with teachers and you learn something. Yes, so imagine the year 1917 at the front of the class and modern Russia sitting as classrooms going, what can we learn from this? It's a strange way of looking at it, but there is some idiomatic truth in that. Whilst it's not a classroom lesson, it's about things we can learn so that we don't repeat mistakes of the past or things that we can learn from the past to improve what we do in the future.