which Russian revolutionary promised all the support all the Indian revolutionary plz somebody give wright answer
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Its emancipatory potential and its limitless promise were both squashed ruthlessly by the very party that claimed to speak on behalf of the people.e-paper
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There are many theories why the Russian Revolution of November 1917 went so badly wrong, including the Menshevik notion that Russia was too underdeveloped for a socialist revolution. Photo: Bloomberg
There are many theories why the Russian Revolution of November 1917 went so badly wrong, including the Menshevik notion that Russia was too underdeveloped for a socialist revolution. Photo: Bloomberg
Russian Revolution: The promise of 1917
4 min read . 07 Nov 2017
Manas Chakravarty
The brief flowering of 1917 calls for celebration, because for a while, it opened a window to a whole new world, a world brimming with possibilities, pregnant with promise
Why should anybody celebrate the 100th anniversary of a revolution that led straight to the Gulag, an oppressive police state and moribund state capitalism?
The short answer is that it was a revolution betrayed. Its emancipatory potential and its limitless promise were both squashed ruthlessly by the very party that claimed to speak on behalf of the people.
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Well before the storming of the Winter Palace, the Russian people had been making the revolution. After the Tsar was toppled in March 1917, the peasants started taking over the landed estates and workers’ committees sprang up in factories and in shops.
Directly elected councils of workers and soldiers, called soviets, took shape in towns and cities across Russia and soon became the real centres of power. Indeed, the Bolsheviks had no alternative but to promise “All Power to the Soviets".