Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a Brutal Soviet Era

Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by a7776f88862 on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:41PM (#18260617)

You are being disingenuously pedantic by making a distinction between synonymous words. From the linked document:

"Уже с конца сентября ЦК партии большевиков решил мобилизовать все силы партии для организации успешного восстания. В этих целях ЦК решил организовать Военно-революционный комитет в Питере"

Which translates to:

"From the end of September, the central committee of the bolshevik party decided to mobilize all party forces for the organization of a successful uprising. To these ends, the central committee decided to organize a Military-revolutionary committee in St. Petersburg"

Also note the reference to the counter-revolutionary plot. For Stalin, the October coup was clearly the continuation of the February revolution.

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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by v_lisivka on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:58PM (#18260694)

No, I don't. You need to understand that whole process, started in February 1917, was named "Russian revolution", while October episode was just part of it. They were separated in to two "revolutions" much later.

See [1] for more details.

[1]: https://pikabu.ru/story/ot_revolyutsii_k_perevorotu_i_obratn...

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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by a7776f88862 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:35PM (#18286665)

Did you even bother to read the article you linked to? The citations make it quite clear that the terms were synonymous, and it was multiple groups (not just the Bolsheviks) who referred to the October Bolshevik takeover as a revolution.

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Re:Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a B... by v_lisivka on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:00PM (#18288834)

Yes, I read it. But I taken into account only claims backed by historical sources.

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