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poor little meow meow

His small egg of a bald head resting on the pillow of his sickbed, the few wispy hairs left slicked with sweat to his pale, emaciated skull. The fruits of his labour, a world he and his once closest friend discussed in detail late into the night and early into the morning, risking death and facing exile to usher forward, laying just outside his window, while his old comrade lay almost still, in his own bed in Germany. The sun of development rising over one country, and setting in the other.

Ten Days That Shook the World: On the eve of the October Revolution

Ten Days That Shook the World, the most famous first-hand account of the Great October Socialist Revolution, was written by the radical journalist and co-founder of the U.S. communist movement, John Reed. 

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

The…

The Aurora in the Neva: Symbol of capitalism’s death knell

All is changed and yet all remains as before. The revolution has shaken the country, deepened the split, frightened some, embittered others, but not yet wiped out a thing or replaced it. Imperial St. Petersburg seems drowned in a sleepy lethargy rather than dead. The revolution has stuck little red flags in the hands of the cast-iron monuments of the monarchy. Great red streamers are hanging down…

The victorious Congress of Soviets

In Smolny on the 25th of October the most democratic of all parliaments in the world’s history was to meet. Who knows – perhaps also the most important.

Having got free of the influence of compromisist intellectuals, the local soviets had sent up for the most part workers and soldiers. The majority of them were people without big names, but who had proved themselves in action and won lasting…