Stalin signs out in force for the Russian Revolution 100th anniversary march in Moscow

[riversedge]

So, many in Russia are having a celebration today.

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Stalin signs out in force for the Russian Revolution 100th anniversary march in Moscow

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[bobbieinok]

1. E Wilson's book To the Finland Station

IIRC this book is where I learned how Lenin got from Switzerland to Russia.

The German high command put him in a train that was locked tight as it went through Germany. They let him out at the Russian border.

They wanted the revolution because it would take the Russians out of WWI. BUT they did not want his revolutionary ideas to contaminate Imperial Germany.

However, the ideas were already in Germany. Eg, Marx and Engels were German.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. The overthrow of the Tsarist regime occurred in March. The Communists took over in November.

(Gregorian dates)

The "October Revolution" might be regarded as more of a coup.

Revolutionary Russia didn't start out as a Socialist, or Communist, regime, and the USSR wasn't established until 1922, after violent fighting between "Reds" and "Whites", and between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. Something to think about whenever you read about the CPSU describing itself as "the voice of the people". It took a lot of chicanery (including assassinations) for the "Party of the Majority" to crush opposing factions.