I just started reading it today, reached page 54 (Right before is starts)
Any thoughts?
Name:
Anonymous2011-03-17 22:19
a non-violent revolution is either called putsch or a coup d'état. you could as well be calling the great bourgeois revolution a somewhat drawn-out demostration that got slighty out of hand. the russian revolution began with a coup as well.
>violent overthrow of the Tzars (who were murderous bastards) and the killing of the royal family (not cool man)
I think you are being too soft. It was Tsar Nicholas II. himself who burried his own grave. When Russia faced the humiliating defeat by an asian nation over Port Arthur Nicholas ordered to move the baltic to the Japanese seas as well, to have it drowned as predicted. He offered his protection to the magical monk who was buggering his wife as well as everything else on the court, male or female. Tsar Nicholas instated a paramilitary gang of thugs (the 'Black Hundred') purging ethnic and political minorities in eastern europe in a most barbaric manner. He triggered the First World war via full mobilisation just because the Habsburgs got significanltly pissed over the Serbia not handing over the murderer of their very last heir-to-the-throne. Last but not least the "Red Terror" was inspired and officially justified by the terror of the "Whites". Russian losses at the front were already quite beyond all reason, anon, because their guns just couldn't reach as far as the German ones (which is a bit of a pity in trench warfare). So they settled for human wave tactics and if the soldiers were even meddling they got shot as deserters. General Kornilov claimed "Russia" had to be "saved" even if it meant "three quarters of Russians have to shed blood for it", the British newpapers quoted a Russian officer answering their concern over their great human losses with an ensurance that they still "have more than enough of such shit." The USSR, the Islamic Republic of Persia and Khaddafi's Anarchism have one thing in common: they turnt into a monster while warding off foreign interventions that begun back when they actually weren't as bad. Isolation made any liberalism actually dangerous to the revolutionary cause.