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Russian Revolution
"Russian Revolution" is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II, and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the Gregorian calendar; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time). In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government.
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If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer... ("Letter To Stalin")
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¡Obreros! Picad el miedo.
Vuestra es la tierra desnuda.
Saltad el hambre y la muerte
por sobre la honda laguna,
y uníos a los campesinos,
y a los que en caña se anudan.
¡Rómpanse un millón de puños
contra moral tan injusta!
¡Alzad, alzad vuestros brazos
como se alzaron en Rusia!
Workers! Slash the fear.
Yours is the naked earth.
Leap hunger and death
over the deep lagoon,
and join the peasants
and those knotted to the cane.
Break a million fists
against so unjust a morality!
Raise, raise your a
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