Revolution 1905-1907(1917) and Civil War Anonymous 24-09-21 18:26:12 No. 8307
It was a dress rehearsal, without which the final victory of the proletariat in October 1917 would have been impossible. (Lenin)
The revolution of 1905 came as a surprise to everyone, although Russia had been going to it for a long time. For example, the American historian Richard Pipes considers it a prologue to the student unrest of 1899. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Izvolsky believed that the tsarist regime began to collapse even under Alexander III, and the publicist Mark Vishnyak counted the end of the autocracy from the mid-1870s, when Alexander II stopped the Great Reforms and decided to" freeze " the country. Russia and the ruling dynasty could only be saved from revolution by the introduction of a constitutional monarchy. But the last Romanovs, in an effort to preserve the unshakable autocratic foundations of their power, eventually lost everything and led the country to the catastrophe of 1917.
Interactive map of the 1905 revolution
https://libcom.org/history/interactive-map-1905-revolution Anonymous 05-10-21 14:46:16 No. 8346
>>8345 If you're just going to post art
use the
>>>/hobby/ thread for art
Anonymous 05-10-21 22:54:47 No. 8347
I always get a bit of a lump in my throat thinking about the struggles of the Bolsheviks and the Red Army during the civil war. They faced unimaginable odds, the most brutal counterrevolutionary terror, invasions by the imperialist bourgeoisie of the entire capitalist world, plots, the ferocious vengeance of the masters who had their power shattered, but they did not crumble and triumphed. Nothing can ever take away that victory and it more than anything proves capitalism is not invincible, that the working class can take and hold power in a better way than the misery of capitalism, it proves the power of the masses. The October Revolution is simply the greatest event in world history and from that day capitalism has never and will never be able to put the genie of socialism back in the bottle.
If you want good novels about the revolutionary period, I suggest reading Cement, How the Steel Was Tempered, and Quiet Flows the Don for a look at the period which will fill you with pride. All great works of socialist realism.
>In October 1917 a new history of humanity was begun in our country. Every literate worker and peasant must learn it, for the new history is being made in accordance with that eternal truth, which draws onward the working people of the whole world, and has often fired them with the longing to realise it in practice, to build life on its foundation. This is the only truth with the power to improve all the conditions of life for the workers and peasants. The first man to prove beyond dispute that the old history of humanity was drawing to its end and that the time had come to create a new history–the history of the complete emancipation of the working people from the cruel yoke of the rich–this man was Karl Marx. >The history of the Civil War is the history of the triumph of a great truth embodied in the working class. This history should be familiar to every fighter on the front of cultural revolution, to every builder of the new world. >This "History" is needed not only by the old fighters who are now hard at work building socialism, breaking down the resistance of ancient human inertia and people's mistrust of their own powers; it is needed not only to conjure up proud memories of their battles and victories. Our young generation needs it to learn the heroism of their fathers and to understand who were the men that fought for their cottage and cow, for the victory of the working class, for socialism. It is needed by the proletariat of all countries, the millions for whom the days of great battles are now not far distant. This book must be a vivid chronicle of heroism and must inspire heroism. >At the same time it will be a real, veracious history of all the atrocities and havoc inflicted on our country by its former masters; it must show all the loathsome hatred felt by the beasts of prey who had had their claws cut and their teeth drawn. It will show how shamelessly the factory-owners and landowners destroyed the property of the people of their country. It will convince the good-natured and the soft-hearted that a capitalist is no longer a human being, but a creature in which an insane lust for profit has consumed every vestige of humanity. This "History" must be a record of all the blood shed by the capitalists for the sole purpose of maintaining their accustomed conditions of life, the comfortable, delightful, thoroughly corrupt life of two-legged beasts fattening themselves on other people's strength. https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/misc/x001.htm Anonymous 06-10-21 21:33:56 No. 8351
>>8349 We shall bravely go to the battle for Soviet power
And we all to the last man shall die fighting for this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1vjLpm82w Anonymous 09-10-21 22:30:34 No. 8352
Da hab'n die Proleten Schluss gesagt
Anonymous 12-02-22 22:53:04 No. 9764
1. I, son of the laboring people, citizen of the Soviet Republic, assume the title of warrior in the Worker-Peasant Army.
Anonymous 12-02-22 23:19:35 No. 9771
Hands Off Russia
was written by William Paul
and published in 1919
This copy belonged to Alfred Comrie,
who was a founder member
of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Taken from
http://www.heartfield.org/HandsOffRussia.htm Unique IPs: 31