| The Russia that Russians see Posted: 05 Nov 2017 12:00 PM PST ![The Russia that Russians see]( "The Russia that Russians see") Right at the top of The Christian Science Monitor's Daily Edition are two words: "Perspective matters." Those words come from the mission and lived experience of the Monitor. For this week's cover story, Sara Miller Llana visited Russia for the first time to write on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Arthur has worked extensively with cover story coauthor Fred Weir, who is one of the most contrarian Russia correspondents in the Western press – frequently looking at stories from a Russian perspective.
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| One family’s divergent views of the Bolshevik revolution tell a tale of Russia’s complicated past – and present Posted: 05 Nov 2017 09:00 AM PST ![One family's divergent views of the Bolshevik revolution tell a tale of Russia's complicated past – and present]( "One family's divergent views of the Bolshevik revolution tell a tale of Russia's complicated past – and present") Leonid Medvedko, a Russian historian, was born in 1928 on the winning side of history. It was one of many odd-sounding names of the era: Vilor is the acronym for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, organizer of the revolution. Leonid, like his father, led a privileged life in the Soviet Union.
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