The October Revolution was the event whereby the Bolshevik Party, using Revolutionary units of the Army and the Red Guards, or bands of Armed Workers, overthrew the stagnant Provisional Government of Aleksandr Kerensky and Miliukov, which had kept Russia in a bloody war that the people did not want and that had cost Russia millions of lives, despite the abdication of the Tyrannical Tsar Nicholas II. The fact that the Provisonal Government kept Russia in the war, combined with the fact that it arrested Revolutionary activists and machine-gunned peaceful protests, proved that this was no Democratic Government, and nor did it have the interests of the people at heart. It was a government dominated by landowners, Bourgeois industrialists, and aristocrats over whom the spector of Tsarism still hung heavily: if the Provisional Government had remained it was likely that Tsarism and all its tyrannies would return to the vast territory of the Russian Empire.
On 7th November, 25 October by the Old Russian Calander, the Bolsheviks overthrew this regime. It was not an unpopular coup d'etat, as some have claimed, but a true Revolution, right down to the fact that it was supported and carried out by the bands of Armed Workers and Armed Peasants themselves. But this was so much more than the simple overthrow of the Provisional Government: with the Provisional Government gone and the Bolsheviks, under Lenin and Trotsky, in power, the Great Imperialist War that was raging across the world had finally taken with it the very thing that brought it into the War: the Russian Revolution of October 1917 represented the first and strongest Hammer Blow against the old, established order in Europe and the World. With the October Revolution, the peasants rose up against their landowners and seized the land for themselves, the workers rose up, and they put the power in the bodies of the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, dominated by the Bolsheviks. With the October Revolution, the first Worker's and Peasant's Republic in history was established, and the floodgates seemed to be open. It seemed only a small step for this Revolution to spread to Germany, and Revolution in Germany, as the Industrial and Social-Democratic Centre, would spread Revolution throughout Europe, and from there throughout the world. The entire established order seemed to be threatened not by the war, but by the Revolution that the war had brought with it. After so much planning! So many years of struggle and strife andhardship, this was it! This was the moment! The true Proletarian Revolution! What an achievement Lenin and Trotsky had engineered and carried through! What bravery, courage, and sense of justice had gripped the Russian people, the Worker, the Peasant, and the Soldier to finally shove their submissiveness aside and overthrow the tyranny of Tsarism-Capitalism in this way! What a glorious Revolution! And those slanderers, those Bourgeois lackeys and ruling Class pigs, had said it was impossible! They had said it would never work! They had said it would be anarchy ad chaos! "There is no alternative!" they had shouted so eagerly. Well, now look, the Revolution had happened! The people were in control, and the people's Party, the Bolsheviks, were in power!
And it is in this spirit that today's Proletariat and today's Peasantry must advance! The Revolutionaries, the great flag-bearers and Commissars of Marxism-Leninism, must never give up the cause, never lose faith, never slacken or fall, and if they suffer a blow, if they are knocked down, then they must get straight back up and hit back ten times as hard!
And the Proletariat and the Peasantry must follow these great Revolutionaries, look for them for guidance and instruction and direction, and take matters into their own hands! They must make their own will felt and, more important, the Masses must make their ultimate strength and power known to those who would try to oppress them!
So, people, in the spirit of October, forward, Proletarian Soldier, to Revolution!
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