On this day in 1917, the October Revolution began in Russia when the Bolsheviks initiated an armed insurrection in Petrograd, seizing the Winter Palace and dissolving the Provisional Government in a coup with minimal violence. The name "October Revolution" comes from the fact that the revolution began on October 25th in the dating convention of the time.
Led by the Bolshevik Party, the revolution took place through an armed insurrection in Petrograd and was instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917 - 1923. By November 8th, the Winter Palace, the seat of the Provisional government located in Petrograd, then capital of Russia, had been captured.
Elections were held on November 12th. In contrast to their majority in the soviets (local council governments), the Bolsheviks only won 175 seats in the 715-seat legislative body, coming in second behind the Socialist Revolutionary Party, which won 370 seats.
On its first and only day in session, the Constituent Assembly came into conflict with the soviets, and it rejected soviet decrees on peace and land, resulting in the Constituent Assembly being dissolved by the Bolsheviks in January.
The political situation devolved into a civil war between the Bolsheviks, Whites (counter-revolutionaries), Makhnovists, independence movements, and other socialist factions.
The Bolsheviks eventually defeated all rival parties and formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922. Their victory marked the beginning of Marxism-Leninism as a global force.
Ten Days that Shook the World - John Reed (the dude from kaiserreich)
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Today I have sent in an application to get a rescue hamster. I hope they let me have him :crush:
Help I have the Soviet anthem stuck in my head. Lenin, get out of my brain! :ohnoes:
United forever in friendship and labour, our mighty republics will ever endure. The Great Soviet Union will live through the ages. The dream of a people their fortress secure.
:bird-screm-2: LOOOOONG LIVE OUR SOVIET MOOOTHERLAND ~ :screm:
:lets-fucking-go: BUUIIIIIIIIIILLLT BY THE PEOPLE'S GUIDING HAND
LONG LIVE OUR PEOPLE, UNITED AND FREEEEEEE :lenin-rage:
saw a guy yesterday who must have been in his 50s with both an atheism tshirt and an actual fedora
keeping that flame alive
showing my age but in my early highschool years i thought the people on alt.flame doing their "witty" flamewars and destroying people with le epic bacon takedowns were just the coolest people :cringe:
but now i post on hexbear dot net
My roommate and I spent 3 hours cuddling and watching YouTube videos tonight. We’ve done that a few times since sleeping together last week, either with YouTube or tv or a movie. When we cuddle I get that warm tingly feeling in my chest that I honestly thought was just something that didn’t happen anymore because I’m not a child anymore but maybe it’s just been a while since I actually liked someone??
Ugh the possibility of a positive outcome from this seems slim but here I am doing it anyway because I have literally no self control
My mom talked me into letting her can a bunch om my tomatoes. I was against it because I love fresh tomatoes. I grow more then enough. But thought the canned ones would go to waste.
What a terrible life blunder.
:virgil-sad:
The canned tomatoes are amazing and should have got her to do more. I don't like them as much as fresh sliced tomatoes. But I can just throw a jar of the tomatoes in a pot with literally anything from my fridge and I can have an awesome soup in like 5 minutes. Like I don't even have to spice it. Mom did that during canning.
:quagsire-pog:
Mom moment :wholesome: (i love my mother even if she's disagreeable sometimes and i'm happy you have what i'm assuming is a good relationship with yours aswell)
-29 with the wind Oct. 6th.
What in the actual fuck.I am going to die this winter.
:what-the-hell:
:meow-hug: stay safe out there
dumb joke
where do you live that it's october
Brain is frozen.
I am going to grab a blanket and play some marvel snap.
:freeze-gamer:
It was a high of 82 here today. I think if I was where you are I’d just suddenly die
seeking to build out the uncel (un-celibate) movement. kind of like the undead. it's a goth sexuality. you are simultaneously horny and not-horny all the time. it is NOT post-sex, just as death is NOT post-life
:grillman: : "Uhh so basically you just have sex? Good for you."
:wojak-nooo: : "No I don't 'just have sex' this is totally new thing based on the rejection of the false, -cel vs horndog dichotomy, and establishing a new state of being that exists as a superposition between those states!!!"
:grillman: : "Oh, so you don't have sex? Ok."
Man. I haven't fucked someone i just met wearing cheap velvet who reeked of stale cloves while listening to Bauhaus in like 20 years.
Don't get old it sucks.
just wait till you try to read the history books that insist on using both julian and gregorian until the soviets switched
at the gym :arm-L: :meow-bounce: :arm-R:
listening to parenti lectures at the gym :arm-L: :parenti-hands: :arm-R:
Death to America
It is a syndicalist commune, if you divorce the analysis from ideological tenets and history.
well theres your problem
Amazing.
Really, it's wild reading about grass-non-touchers from 110 years ago.
my birthday gift to myself is gonna be some of the cute cheap plushes they sell on aliexpress
they absolutely won't get here in time tho :sadness:
:meow-fiesta: (early) happy birthday! Which plush you getting?
Review:
The man really liked, this is the most important
Wholesome (reddit 100 chungus etc.)
don't let the man get you down
buy them a cute plushy instead
This bluecheck shit is so fucking funny, sooner or later Elon is going to backtrack into just the old verification badge somehow but you pay for it.
First comedy was legal, then suddenly you can't use your 8$ blue check to impersonate people for fun but you need to be labeled somewhere that you're a parody account, then suddenly the parody label has to be in the display name or you'll get banned, but if you name yourself "Elon Musk (parody)" you'll get suspended anyways.
I hope he really ruins the status of being a "blue check" (because I have a jealous hatred of anyone with more clout than me)
I always followed randos on Twitter, if they said something especially humorous or insightful.
I'm glad that Islam went hardline on alcohol because I would've been a severe alcoholic if it weren't for that.
If society treated alcohol like meth I’d probably be much healthier