{"id":101581,"date":"2017-11-13T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=101581"},"modified":"2017-11-09T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:29:02","slug":"selected-articles-100-years-ago-the-russian-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/11\/selected-articles-100-years-ago-the-russian-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Articles: 100 Years Ago – The Russian Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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November 7th, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of articles, including Eisenstein\u2019s 1928 film, <\/em>10 Days that Shook the World.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

100 Years Ago, The October Revolution, November 7, 1917: History of the Russian Revolutions and Civil War<\/a> – <\/strong>By Julien Paolantoni<\/a>, November 07, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

How did factors as diverse as the country\u2019s participation to WWI, constitutional reforms and economic conditions combine to enable the Bolsheviks to take down the tsarist regime?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Revolution Party and the Russian Revolution<\/a> – <\/strong>By Leo Panitch<\/a>, November 06, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

A fresh and compelling new account of the Russian revolution to mark its centenary concludes by paying tribute to the Bolsheviks for acting as history\u2019s switchmen, a term derived from the small booths that dotted the railway tracks across the Russian empire, where local revolutionaries had long gathered for clandestine meetings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The October Revolution: \u201cTen Days that Shook the World\u201d<\/a> – <\/strong>By Sergei M. Eisenstein<\/a>, November 05, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

Sergei Eisenstein\u2019s masterpiece: \u201cTen Days that Shook the World\u201d (1928).\u00a0In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year.\u00a0While the Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Antonov-Ovseyenko\u00a0leads the attack and declares the proclamation dissolving the provisional government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

History of the Russian Revolution, Peoples\u2019 Right to Self-determination, and Debt Repudiation<\/a> – <\/strong>By Eric Toussaint<\/a>, November 05, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

The Versailles Treaty was eventually signed on 28 June 1919 without Soviet Russia being involved. Even so, this treaty cancelled the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Russian Revolution at 100: The Legend and the Legacy<\/a> – <\/strong>By Michael Welch<\/a>, Prof Michel Chossudovsky<\/a>, and Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels<\/a>, November 05, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

The October Revolution was launched when the Red Guard took over key locations within the capital Petrograd. Twenty thousand Red Guards in the streets, backed by a squadron of seven rebel warships from Kronstadt, and trainloads of armed sailors from Helsingfors in Finland, managed to execute a nearly bloodless coup. Having taken over the Winter Palace, the seat of the Provisional Government, Vladimir Lenin declared that the government had been overthrown and that the Bolsheviks were in control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWipe the Soviet Union Off the Map\u201d, 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II<\/a> – <\/strong>By Prof Michel Chossudovsky<\/a>, November 04, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

The object of the US and its allies from the very outset in 1917 was to destabilize and destroy the Soviet Union. According to a secret document dated\u00a0<\/strong>September 15, 1945, \u201cthe Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union <\/a>\u00a0with a coordinated nuclear attack directed against major urban areas. All major cities of the Soviet Union were included in the list of 66 \u201cstrategic\u201d targets. The tables below categorize each city in terms of area in square miles and the corresponding number of atomic bombs required to annihilate and kill the inhabitants of selected urban areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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