Bolshevik revolution

Precedents to the CP s involvement in the Negro struggle date as far back as Cyril Briggs s African Blood Brotherhood (ABB). Founded in 1919, the ABB was a race organization emphasizing race pride, self-defense, and self-determination for blacks, but also drawn to the anticolonialism of the Bolshevik Revolution. Briggs, Richard Moore, and others... 

The family to which Nikolay was born had a small textile business not far from Moscow. His father Konstantin was educated in Russia and Germany as a chemical engineer, and was expected to develop the family business. This did not happen, because all property was confiscated after the Bolshevik revolution. The only thing that his parents could do for Nikolay and his younger brother Alexander (Shura) was to help them to receive the best possible education. 

Likewise, it is also no secret that the Nazi hierarchy harboured virulent anti-Bolshevik sentiments that brought them close to Elites in England and America and which ultimately found temporary satisfaction in Hitler s attack on the Soviet Union in 1941.6 What is less well known is the fact that it was the same gaggle of Wall Street interests that helped finance the Bolshevik revolution in the first place. We again turn to Professor Sutton who explains why Wall Street financed the Russian Revolution in this manner ... 

Wall Street and The Bolshevik Revolution - Antony C. Sutton... 

When victors such as Lenin get to impose their theories of revolution, not so much on the revolutionary events themselves, but on the postrevolutionary official story, the narrative typically stresses the agency, purpose, and genius of the revolutionary leadership and minimizes contingency. The final irony, then, was that the official story of the Bolshevik Revolution was made, for more than sixty years, to conform closely to the utopian directions outlined in What Is to Be Done ... 

See, for example, ibid. Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1982) and Marc Ferro, The Bolshevik Revolution A Social History of the Russian Revolution, trans. Norman Stone (London Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980). 

In the case of the Bolshevik Revolution, it was also necessary that the official narrative include a genuinely popular mass movement of which the Bolsheviks eventually assumed leadership. Marxist historiography required a militant, revolutionary proletariat. This was an aspect of the February and October events that did not have to be invented. What had to be written out of the account, however, was the ferocious struggle between the new state apparatus on one hand and the autonomous soviets and peasantry on the other. 

Kollontay, unlike so many other dissidents, was not murdered or sent to the labor camps. She survived in a series of ceremonial and ambassadorial posts taken with the implicit understanding that she muzzle her criticism. See Beatrice Farnsworth, Alexandra Kollontai Socialism, Feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution (Stanford Stanford University Press, 1980). 

If Germany had been forced to surrender in 1915, Lenin might never have made it back to Russia from exile in Switzerland. The Bolshevik revolution might never have happened, or it might have taken a milder course. Germany, too, would have been much less likely to descend into economic chaos and political bloodletting. In the absence of Fritz Haber, in other words, we might never have heard the names Hitler and Stalin. 

In the 1940s and 1950s, based on foundations laid down by Onsager, Ilya Prigogine (a Nobel Prize winner in 1977) developed an extension of nonequilibrium thermodynamics for systems far from equilibrium. Born in Moscow just before the Bolshevik Revolution, his family eventually left Russia to settle in Belgium. Though he originally... 

The Russian Chemical Society (RKhO) remained the only nationwide chemical society in the Russian Empire from its organization in 1868 until after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The society remained located in St. Petersburg at the... 

The First World War was more than a European war marking the end of empires. In 1917 came the Bolshevik Revolution, a wild fire more than an historical event. What it meant, no one yet knew. 1917 was a wrinkle in time, a cosmic leap from the old world to the new. An idea flared up in the Russian darkness, the Polish avant-garde poet Tadeusz Peiper wrote, which, though blind and crazy, reached beyond the borders of its fatherland with the shadow of its vibrating wings. ... 

The rapid and radical changes in Soviet society and culture left many writers, even those who initially welcomed the Bolshevik revolution, with a sense... 

Within this system, literary journals played a predominant role, particularly the thick journals . Typical Russian periodicals, these latter were characterized by their volume and by the eclecticism of the themes covered, and from the time of Nikolai Karamzin had dominated the journalistic market. After a brief disruption of the literature-centric structure of culture beginning in 1905, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution restored this structure, and thick journals regained their leading role. For this reason, it is mainly through the development of literary journals, which always prismatically refracted the events of every external cultural and political movement, that we shall try to depict the literary arena of the twentieth century. In their pages theoretical debates developed, the process of creating a new writer was completed, and a new literature and literary criticism arose. 

During the first few years, the main function of OAO Siti was to clear pre-existing structures on about 40 ha (88 acres) on the site. This was not uncontroversial, because some of the pre-existing warehouses, factories, and apartments had been built before the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and had some historical value. Also, Krasnaya Presnya historical neighborhood rich in the artifacts of the 1905 Uprising, was immediately to the north of the construction site. 

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