Red October: The Birth of Socialism in Russia

107 years have passed since the day when the Russian people decided to curb the injustices of a ruthless imperial tsarist regime, which they overthrew under the leadership of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the main leader of the Social Democratic Workers Party, with the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution, also known as Red October or October Revolution.

The hard start of the rebellion came in February 1917, focused on Saint Petersburg, where demonstrations took place and chaos broke out, and members of the imperial parliament or Duma assumed control of the country, forming the Russian provisional Government. The army leadership felt that they did not have the means to suppress the revolution and Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, abdicated.

This meant that the soviets (workers' councils), which were led by socialist groups, allowed the provisional government to govern, but insisted on a prerogative to influence and control various militias.

On the other hand, the October Revolution (November 07, 1917, according to the Gregorian calendar) occurred when the Bolshevik Party, led by Lenin, overthrew the provisional government with the intention of forming a so-called Sovnarkom.

In that sense, and with the intention of dedicating themselves fully to internal changes, the Bolshevik leaders signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in March 1918, thus moving away from the First World War and all the wear and tear that this generated.

With the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), it can be said that the so-called real socialism began, which made the country make great advances in the field of space, military, nuclear and energy technology, among others, which made the country become one of two superpowers and consider itself the only country that could face the power of the United States as equals. This has been inherited by the resurgent Russian Federation, led by Vladimir Putin.

Mazo News Team