#bolsheviks

[lilithism1848]

#leningrad #lenin #leftism #anti capitalism #communism #socialism #anarchy #marxist leninist #vladimir lenin #stalin #karl marx #soviet union #marxism leninism #october revolution #bolsheviks #radical feminism #anti feminism #feminism #tweet #womens rights #fuck the patriarchy #feminist theory #female erasure #intersectional feminism

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Great Lenin! One hundred years after your passing, on January 21, 1924, we continue the struggle to which you dedicated your life — the struggle to liberate the workers and oppressed peoples of the whole world.

Thanks to you, the trail was blazed. You taught us that the struggle has many twists and turns. In times of upheaval, some who seemed like opponents will become your best comrades in arms, while many who seemed solid will lose their way, and still others will emerge to pick up the red banner they abandoned.

To hold onto your revolutionary principles and history, while never surrendering your ability to think critically using the tools of Marxism; to combine these unflinching principles with the greatest flexibility in strategy and tactics; to always maintain a class analysis of imperialism and the state; to uphold the struggles of the oppressed nations and peoples; to build a revolutionary combat organization that can lead the workers to power — these are just a few of your teachings that we cherish and struggle daily to uphold.

#lenin100 #lenin #communist #socialism #revolutionary #marxism #imperialism #solidarity #national liberation #bolsheviks

[todaysdocument]

The New Peril

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

Having just defeated German militarism in World War I, civilization was threatened by another peril, Bolshevism. The desolation and destruction throughout Europe caused by the war provided socialists and communists with audiences open to their cries for a better society. In-fighting between Menshevik and Bolshevik forces continued to mean a hard existence for the Russian people. Cartoonist Clifford Berryman shows a vigilant toga-garbed figure of civilization with shield and sword, ready to do battle with Bolshevism, represented by a wild-eyed, wild-haired terrorist while a defeated German military officer handcuffed to a ball and chain looks on from the other side of the room.

This political cartoon shows a female figure in classical dress, holding a sword and a round shield, labeled “Civilization.”  To the right is the defeated German officer in full military uniform.  His hands are chained to a large iron ball.  “Civilization” is turning to face the figure on the left, a wild-eyed Russian peasant labeled “Bolshevism.”  He is bearded, and his hair stands on end.  His stance is aggressive, but he is unarmed.  

#archivesgov #January 10 #1919 #1910s #WWI #world war 1 #great war #russian revolution #bolsheviks #clifford berryman #political cartoons

[septictankie]

Events as they happened, day-by-day, beginning with the 1917 October Revolution, possibly continued into the Russian Civil War.

As of now, the Bolsheviks control Petrograd and have just won Moscow. Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, and others have just resigned from the government to protest Lenin’s position on negotiating a coalition with the Mensheviks and SRs. And, in southern Russia, Kaledin and the Don Cossacks are forming what will become the White Army…

#socialism #communism #marxism #politics #soviet union #history #october revolution #Bolsheviks #Vladimir Lenin #Petrograd #Moscow #Russian revolution #Russian civil war #red October

[cominternagent]

#communism #bolsheviks #revolution #lenin

[katchwreck]

For Socialism

A Red Army soldier writes in his own blood after the battle for Odessa, which began with the revolt of local workers seizing critical areas of the city on behalf of Soviet forces in February 1920.

From the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, Odessa, 1920.

#odessa #1920 #agitprop #revolutionary #civil war #bolsheviks #posters #poster #marxism leninism #marxism #revolt

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

What was the exact reason the Romanov Family were executed? because I'm curious because a lot of ppl say it was from some human stampede or something?

Short answer: No

Long Answer: They were executed because the Bolshevik party led by Vladimir Lenin was keeping them in captivity at a place called The Ipatiev House, or as it was known to them, “The House of Special Purpose”. This special purpose was to keep the Romanov family here and eventually kill them. Because the White Army (the army that supported the tsarist regime and wanted to restore the monarchy) was slowly approaching Bolshevik territory, AKA Yekaterinburg (where the Ipatiev House was), the orders to kill the Romanov family came quickly because the Bolsheviks didn’t want them falling into the hands of the Mensheviks (the whites). NAOTMAA and their faithful servants were essentially human pawns. During the early morning of July 17th 1918, Yakov Yurovsky (commandant of the house) and his men loaded their guns and fired on the family in the basement.

Thank you for asking!!! (and sorry for the late reply!)

#answered ask #olga nikolaevna #tatiana nikolaevna #maria nikolaevna #anastasia nikolaevna #alexei nikolaevich #otma #romanov #otmaa #tsar nicholas ii #alexandra feodorovna #yekaterinburg #1918 #ipatiev house #bolsheviks

[diasporangael]

#ADL #Bolsheviks #Holodomor

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

November 17th, 1903: The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into the Bolsheviks (the majority, the "hards", led by Vladimir Lenin) and the Mensheviks (the minority, the "softs", led by Julius Martov).

#history #world history #communism #socialism #soviet russia #ussr #lenin #bolsheviks #mensheviks

[postcard-from-the-past]

Railway bridge over the Belaya river damaged by the Bolsheviks, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

Russian vintage postcard

#vintage #tarjeta #damaged #briefkaart #river #postcard #photography #belaya #postal #carte postale #republic of bashkortostan #sepia #ephemera #historic #russian #ansichtskarte #bolsheviks #republic #bridge #postkarte #railway #russia #bashkortostan #postkaart #photo

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The consciousness of the workers of the whole world cannot grasp this fact; for the enemy is still very strong, the way is long, and the great work, the greatest of history, is unfinished; for the working class of the world needed Lenin as perhaps no one in the history of the world has yet been needed.

How shall we advance, shall we find the way, shall we not go astray? For Lenin, comrades, is no longer with us!

Lenin is no more, but Leninism endures. The immortal in Lenin, his doctrine, his work, his method, his example, lives in us, lives in the party that he founded, lives in the first workers' state whose head he was and which he guided.

May the pain we feel, that stabs our harts each time we think that Lenin is no more, be for each of us an admonition, a warning, an appeal: Your responsibility is increased. Be worthy of the leader who trained you!

L.D. Trotsky, Tiflis Station, January 22nd, 1924

"Lenin dead"

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1925/lenin/13.htm

#lenin100 #lenin #trotsky #communist #socialism #revolutionary #memorial #ussr #soviet #bolsheviks #workers

[todaysdocument]

Letter from Mrs. H. Lipsett to the Department of Justice Requesting an Investigation into an Unnamed Bolshevik Living in Los Angeles

Record Group 60: General Records of the Department of JusticeSeries: Straight Numerical FilesFile Unit: 20600 Section 5 [1/2]

ESTABLISHED 1921

                                                       O. B. Dry Goods Store

                                                          MRS. H. LIPSETT

                                                           PROPRIETOR

                                                      5034 NEWPORT AVENUE

                                                      OCEAN BEACH, CALIF.

[stamped on left margin] CRIMINAL DIVISION APR 24 1929 RECEIVED [/stamped on left margin]

[stamped on right margin] RECORD [/stamped right margin]

[red check mark on right margin]

[written in red on right margin 202600]

[stamped on right margin] illegible APR 24 ?? A.M. BU. INV. LUMBING [/stamped on right margin]

                                                        April 19, 1929

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

Do you encourage Bolshevism in this country?  Do you tolerate Bolshevism in the United States?

If you do then I am awfully sorry to waste my time in writing and your time in reading these few lines.  [stamped] APR 26 1929 [/stamped]

But if you do not (and I am sure that you do not) then the address which I am enclosing will stand a little investigation and a great deal of your attention, I presume.  

This man has been a stark raving socialist, social democrat, and at the present time he is a bolshevik.

He is a born Russian, a Canadian subject, and for the last seven years he has been living in Los Angeles.

I do not believe that at the present time he is taking an active part in any bolshevik movement, but he has a recently made a will leaving his property to the Communist party.

Any questions that you care to ask me I will be glad to answer.

                          Respectfully yours,

                         [handwritten] Mrs. H. Lipsett [/handwritten]

#archivesgov #April 19 #1929 #red scare #1920s #bolsheviks #Los Angeles

[septictankie]

"Out of the real power of society over external nature and social forces there follows another feature of ideology of the new world, viz., the complete absence of all fetishism, the purity and clearness of knowledge and the emancipation of the mind from all the fruits of mysticism and metaphysics. The last traces of natural fetishism will disappear, and this will reflect the final overthrow of both the domination of external nature over man and the social fetishism reflecting the domination of the elemental forces of society; the power of the market and competition will be uprooted and destroyed. Consciously and systematically organising his struggle against the elements of nature, social man will have no need for idols which are the personification of a sense of helplessness in the face of the insuperable forces of the surrounding world. The unknown will cease to be unknown because the process of acquiring knowledge – systematic organisation on the basis of organised labour – will be accompanied by a consciousness of strength, a sense of victory, arising from the knowledge that in the living experience of man there are no longer any spheres surrounded by impenetrable walls of mystery. The reign of science will begin and put an end to religion and metaphysics for ever."

-- Alexander Bogdanov, 1919

source: Socially Organised Society: Socialist Society

#socialism #communism #marxism #politics #anti capitalism #history #revolution #soviet union #Alexander Bogdanov #Bolsheviks #metaphysics #religion

[cult-of-the-girl-offensive]

"Concerning a new name for the Party: the word 'Social-Democracy' is incorrect; it is scientifically wrong. Marx and Engels said as much on many occasions. If they 'put up with' the word, it was because after the year 1871 a special situation was created: a slow preparation of the masses was needed, revolution was not on the order of the day. Democracy, too, means a form of state, but the Paris Commune had risen above it. Now the whole world is faced with the practical issue–that of the transition to socialism. The Social-Democrat Plekhanov and the rest of the social-chauvinists throughout the world have betrayed socialism. We should call ourselves the 'Communist Party'." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, "Report on the Present Situation and Attitude Towards the Provisional Government" (April 14 / April 27 1917)

#russian revolution #communism #bolsheviks #soviet #soviet history #socialist politics #communist party #marxism #vladimir lenin #lenin #social democracy

[otmaaromanovas]

The wonderful Helen Azar remains incredible as always! She has pointed out that the most likely reason that Sophie 'Isa' Buxhoeveden wasn't killed alongside other members of the Imperial entourage was because of her last name. 'Buxhoeveden' is a very European sounding name, not Russian at all. Pierre Gilliard and Sydney Gibbes were spared death because they were from Europe, and killing them would potentially have caused a diplomatic nightmare between their countries. It's entirely likely that the Bolsheviks did not want to risk getting into the same trouble by murdering a 'Buxhoeveden'.

#Sophie Buxhoeveden #Isa Buxhoeveden #Helen Azar #sources #1918 #imperial entourage #last entourage #Bolsheviks #my own

[redsolon]

Focus on centralization and unity must shift with objective conditions: Look at the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. During a revolutionary situation, when unity of action is most important, disunity must be resolved through a split to preserve the majority. When revolution's far away, it's more useful to stay united and hash it out rather than splitting endlessly before anything can start.

#socialism #communism #Marxism #communist party #Bolsheviks #Mensheviks #democratic centralism #dialectical materialism #Marxism-Leninism #Trotskyism #Maoism