Soltanghaliev’s name may also be encountered in spellings such as Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Mirsәjet Soltanƣәlijef, etc.; I do not claim that the one I have used in my title is the best. The Morning Star, which printed an article of mine very loosely based on this talk, unfortunately fluctuated between ‘Soltanghaliev’ and ‘Sultan-Galiev’.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mirsaid-sultan-galiev-forgotten-forerunner-third-worldist-leftism

Image: on the way to the venue to give this talk

The book by Lunacharsky that I discuss in this talk is actually entitled Religion and Socialism, not the other way round. Pitfall of doing these without notes.

Image: Tompkins Harrison Matteson, The Trial of George Jacobs, August 5th, 1692 (detail) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matteson_Trial_of_George_Jacobs.jpg

Caption to go with the image:

Dave wasn’t actually wild about the idea of eating an insect, but it was important to show he didn’t buy into the conspiracy theories.

Image: detail of a photograph by Kora27 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mittsommerfest_in_Norwegen,_Insel_Tysnes_IMG_4425WI.jpg

Image: John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath (detail) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Martin_-_The_Great_Day_of_His_Wrath_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

This is notionally the first part in a series on ancient Chinese philosophy, but I haven’t yet got around to doing any more parts. Image by Zai Ying https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:驍騰萬里，載瀛.jpg

The handout (a sample Refal program) can be found here:

https://pastebin.com/gZuakiQQ

(The talk is unlikely to be very easy to follow without it.)

But I’m afraid the line numbers you’ll see there don’t match the ones I mention in the talk: my original printed handout only numbered the non-blank lines (as is usual in line-numbered texts of poems, etc.), but not everyone follows that convention.

Image: The Flying Dutchman (detail), by Charles Temple Dix. In the talk I mention a handout with a sketch map—that isn't included here, but any map of South Africa showing Table Bay and Cape Agulhas will do just as well (if you want to remind yourself where those places are). N.B. The colony of Dutch Ceylon in fact fell to the British in 1796, not 1795 as I say here.

Image: Piltdown Man and Hippopotamus (1948), by the Soviet painter and palaeontologist Konstantin Flerov https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piltdown_Man_hunting_on_the_hippopotamus_by_Flerov.jpg