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[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

'Dual powerlessness' lays basis for crisis of July 1917

‘Dual powerlessness’ lays basis for crisis of July 1917

Lenin’s assertion [at the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets] of the Bolshevik willingness to take power was a declaration of war on the Provisional Government and was intended as such. The authority of the coalition was wilting; it was the period of what Trotsky called “the dual powerlessness.”

The next step was to test the state of mind of workers and soldiers in Petrograd. The Bolsheviks…

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[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

'Every move on the political chessboard seemed to justify Lenin's boldest calculations'

‘Every move on the political chessboard seemed to justify Lenin’s boldest calculations’

From the moment of the April conference every move on the political chessboard seemed to play into the hands of the Bolsheviks and to justify Lenin’s boldest calculations. Milyukov’s note of April 18 [May 1 on the modern calendar] had been a slap in the face not so much for the Bolsheviks as for those moderate elements in the Soviet which, while rejecting the Bolshevik policy of peace through…

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[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Origin of the dual power The February revolution of 1917 which overthrew the Romanov dynasty was the spontaneous outbreak of a multitude exasperated by the privations of the war and by manifest inequality in the distribution of burdens.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The Bolsheviks before Lenin’s arrival in Petrograd Of the two factions of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, it was the Mensheviks who at first profited most by the February revolution.

[58thacademic]

Does anyone have access to The Vices of Integrity: E. H. Carr 1892-1982 by Johnathan Haslam, published in 2000? I need a photo of page 57, please if you can help message me and if you can't, reblog

[nuwoman]

What is History? still provides a powerful retort to cultural pessimism.

[thusreluctant]

Men come easily to the belief that arrangements agreeable to themselves are beneficial to others.

Albert V. Dicey

[thusreluctant]

Theories of social morality are always the product of a dominant group which identifies itself with the community as a whole, and which possesses facilities denied to subordinate groups or individuals for imposing its view of life on the community. Theories of international morality are, for the same reason and in virtue of the same process, the product of dominant nations or groups of nations. [...] "International order" and "international solidarity" will always be slogans of those who feel strong enough to impose them on others.

The Twenty Years' Crisis by E. H. Carr