A Legacy of Lies and Lost Souls The Russian Revolution at One Hundred Tears

摘要

On November 7,2017, we will acknowledge the one hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Russia was still using the Julian calendar at the time, so period references show the date as October 25 and thus the historical designation "October Revolution." Regardless, on November 7,1917, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks toppled the Provisional Government and set out to implement full socialism. As John Reed reported soon thereafter in Ten Days That Shook the World, Lenin took the podium, stared out into the cheering crowd, and simply said, "Now, we will construct socialism" ([1919] 1985, 117). And indeed he tried.