Status Updates From October: The Story of the R...

There were mass protests to overthrow the Provisional Government followed by the rumor that Lenin was a German spy. This set the Bolsheviks back quite a lot and many ended up in prison.

The Soviet gave women the right to vote and started pulling power from the Provisional Government. Part of the group wanted to institute a liberal democracy through the elevation of the owners and well-educated and the others wanted to create a democracy guided by the workers.

Finished the first two chapters. There were a few bloody strikes leading up to 1917. The military members in St Petersburg eventually rebelled against their officers and went about killing police. The legislative body struggled for reforms while the Soviet pushed for a work-led transition to democracy.

The complete absence of revolutionary organizing in the U.S. is so depressing. Peasant Russia was doing far better, and they had no historic example of victory(tho they would soon create the first)!

Revolutionary discontent always devolves into fascism if it is not pointed in the right direction by class consciousness, and we sure have seen that play out among the youth

Anyway… random thoughts