Mikhail Zygar: What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media
میخاییل زیگار: انقلاب روسیه در رسانههای اجتماعی چگونه میتوانست باشد
Mikhail Zygar is the founder of Future History, the creative digital studio behind Project1917 and 1968.digital. Full bio
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should be focused on the rulers,
روی حکمرانها متمرکز باشد،
in many countries, like mine, Russia,
مثل کشور من، روسیه،
that was predetermined
influence it in any way.
نمیتوانند بر آن اثر بگذارند.
that Russia could ever have been
که روسیه هرگز بتواند
history has been framed
تاریخ به شهروندان روسی
of my life trying to go 100 years back,
تلاش برای برگشت به ۱۰۰ سال قبل کردم،
and Facebook existed 100 years ago?
و فیسبوک ۱۰۰ سال قبل وجود داشت؟
a social network for dead people,
را برای مردهها ساختم،
all possible real diaries and letters
ممکن را که توسط بیش از
for each day of 1917
like Stravinsky or Trotsky,
استراوینسکی یا تروتسکی،
and others thought and felt.
چه فکر یا احساسی داشتند بخوانند.
being ordinary people like you and me,
افراد عادی مثل من و شما میبینیم،
of their mistakes, fears, weaknesses,
از اشتباهات، ترسها، ضعفها است،
از روسهایی که عادت دارند
has always been an autocratic empire
یک امپراطوری استبدادی بوده
could never have prevailed,
هرگز نمیتوانسته حاکم باشد، حیرتآور ابود،
was not our destiny.
مردم سالاری سرنوشت ما نبود.
of communist dictatorship.
استبداد کمونیستی منتهی گشت،
could have had a different history
میتوانسته تاریخ متفاوت
as any other country could or still can.
درست مثل هر کشور دیگری و هنوز هم ممکن است.
was the first country in the world
to grant women voting rights.
حق رای به زنان بود.
how ordinary people influenced history
چگونگی نفوذ مردم عادی بر تاریخ
of what's happening right now.
از آنچه الان در حال وقوع است.
از تاریخگویی نیاز داریم،
that is called 1968Digital.com,
1968Digital.com را شروع کردیم،
of that year, 1968,
جهانی شناخته میشود
created the world as we know it now.
characters could use mobile phones ...
شخصیتهای اصلی الان میتوانستند
and were fighting for the same values,
و برای ارزشهای یکسان مبارزه میکردند،
in the US or in USSR
زندگی میکردند یا جماهیر شوروی
or in Czechoslovakia.
و یا در چک و اسلواکی.
in such a democratic way,
به چنین روش دموکراتیکی
are not the only ones making choices.
در انتخابها نقش ندارند.
of reclaiming history.
که تاریخ را از آن خود بداند.
philosophers matter.
و فیلسوفها مهم هستند.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mikhail Zygar - Journalist, writer, filmmakerMikhail Zygar is the founder of Future History, the creative digital studio behind Project1917 and 1968.digital.
Why you should listen
Mikhail Zygar is a Russian journalist, writer, filmmaker and the founding editor-in-chief of the Russian independent news TV-channel, Dozhd (2010 - 2015). Prior to Dozhd, Zygar worked for Newsweek Russia and the business daily Kommersant, where he covered the conflicts in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Serbia and Kosovo. His bestseller All the Kremlin's Men is based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, presenting a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. His recent book The Empire Must Die was released in Russian and English in 2017. It portrays the years leading up to the Russian revolution and the vivid drama of Russia's brief and exotic experiment with civil society before it was swept away by the Communist Revolution.
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