July 2017 is the centennial of one of the greatest disasters in modern history: the "July Days," which represented the beginning of a concerted effort by the Bolsheviks to destroy the Provisional Government that had overthrown the tsar.  This ended in a junta four months later that left the Russian people with a monstrously evil regime that got worse over time. The left has tried over the last century to somehow portray Bolshevik Russia as better than Tsarist Russia.  Eugene Lyon, a former communist who was appalled by what he saw when he visited the Soviet Union, wrote a book on the fiftieth anniversary of the Bolshevik junta, Workers' Paradise Lost, and in that book Lyons goes through every conceivable comparison between Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union.  In every way, the tsars were better than the Soviets. Tsarist Russia had the fastest growing economy in the world in 1913.  By 1934, if trends in industrial production had continued, it...(Read Full Article)