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BOLSHEVIKS LEADING RUSSIA
october : 1917
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he February Revolution began on 8 March (Old Style: 23 February) 1917, when over 120,000 people joined anti-war meetings, demonstrations and strikes in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg). The next day, the number of people in the streets almost doubled and the situation gradually escalated.
Today, social media plays a central role in the spread of information (both true and false) and the organisation of demonstrations and even revolutions. In 1917, news of the meetings and strikes was spread through word of mouth in the factories and pamphlets distributed by the Bolsheviks and other political groups.
On 12 March (Old Style: 27 February), the ‘Temporary Committee of the State Duma’ and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies were both formed, and the following day, the Petrograd Soviet published the first issue of its newsletter, Izvestiia (News).
After the October Revolution, Izvestiia (News) became the official newspaper of the Soviet Government. Its sister paper, Pravda (Truth), later became the newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. As Izvestiia (News) was a popular name for a newspaper, when printers in revolutionary Petrograd walked out of their workplaces and most newspapers did not appear, the Committee of Petrograd Journalists started issuing their own short-lived placards also called Izvestiia to disseminate the latest news.
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As Lenin observed World War I from exile, the Germans observed the deteriorating domestic situation of its enemy Russia. They proposed to allow Lenin to return to Russia in late March 1917 in the hopes that his presence would lead to more chaos and further weaken the country. Fellow Russian exiles viewed Lenin as a traitor for making a deal with Russia’s enemy, but Lenin, his wife, and a group of fellow émigrés made the voyage anyway. They boarded a “sealed train” that would travel through Switzerland to Sweden. On arrival at Petrograd’s Finland Station on April 3, Lenin undermined the Provisional Government by declaring, “All power to the soviets.” Germany’s gamble that Lenin would increase destabilization in Russia paid off. Later, British prime minister Winston Churchill assessed the move: “They turned upon Russia the most grisly of weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus.
Lenin’s writings ran counter to Marxist theory because they rejected the need for the first phase—the “bourgeois-democratic” revolution. Even so, Lenin managed to win the Bolshevik Party around to his theses. Mass enrollments of workers and soldiers drawn to his charisma aided his cause. These new members knew little about Marxist theory and valued his efficiency: Why wait to reach socialism in two stages when they could get there in one?
Discontent continued to spread throughout Russia from the cities to the countryside. Workers’ expectations soared: Strikers called for an eight-hour day and workers’ control of the factories. As part of the wider crisis in authority, the Petrograd Soviet had limited control over revolts in the provinces and agrarian communities. Local towns and regions behaved as if they were independent of the nation. As in 1905, the village commune was the organizing kernel of the revolution in the countryside, as land and livestock were seized. Soldiers had their own committees, which supervised relations with the officers. Some soldiers refused to fight for more than eight hours a day, claiming the same rights as the workers.
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