Hallelujah! Wikipedia FINALLY caught on, so if you were to read their "on this day" list TODAY you would find yourself informed about the events of this very day in 1917. Of course, you needn't visit wiki for all the information you need is right HERE. And it's more in-depth. Wiki has like a sentence on it (and it's incorrect, it said the revolution started today. WRONG, it started YESTERDAY!). Pretty disappointing really, I mean it is one of the biggest events ever to happen in the history of man kind. They may as well have just left it out completely.
So, as its November the 7th (25 October in the Julian calender) it was day 2 of the October revolution. Here's the low-down:
-Red Guard storm the Winter Palace at 2.10 am
-Kerensky escapes, however, and is protected by the American Embassy
-The Provisional Government is arrested and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress (cool name right) and the ministers resigned to 'fate' and surrendered without a fight, and the PG was officially overthrown
-Trotsky dismisses Menshevik and SR opposition from congress
-Petrograd Soviet now in control of Government, garrison and proletariat
And to think, Wikipedia didn't think this more important than "The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette." What a cop out.
The amazing feat that was the October revolution is something that we all should recognize, if not celebrate. Whether or not what became of the Bolsheviks after 1917, and their impact on Russian society is irrelevant. Barack Obama got a Nobel peace prize because of his ideas (practically...) but he hasn't done anything yet, and neither had Lenin. But he had envisaged a Utopian society of peace and equality. It is for this reason alone why we should be educated about the October revolution and so that all of us can know that there are some who realise our class-based, capitalist-money-grabbing-orphan-creating society is not idealistic.
Oh, it's also free slurpee day.
6 comments:
Dude, that was amazing.
"class-based, capitalist-money-grabbing-orphan-creating society"
Legendary.
I feel a Ballet Russes inspired post a-comin' on!
Thanks. I put sone of my true emotion into the post I guess. Definitely! Did you meet one?
negative. but it was a.m.a.z.i.n.g!
so so great.
thats a shame
we'll go to another one one day
and we will DEFINITELY meet one!
DEAL!
Btw youre averaging 1 post per day.
You are STEAMING!
HAhahahhaha, i love the right-winger reference.
I know, its a pretty good record. AND right at exam time too
exams make me blog, what can i say
but it'll be over in 7 more posts :-(
then it'll be the randomly posted ones every now and then...
yeah i thought you would like it ;-)
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