Red Flag Unfurled by Ronald Suny

Author:Ronald Suny
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services)

One must … reject the image of the Russian working class as uniformly irrational, poorly educated, and incapable of independent participation in the political process. One must reject in particular the myth that the revolution in the cities was carried out by dark semi-peasant masses “who did not understand the real meaning of the slogans they loudly repeated.” Yes, of course, many Moscow workers were more rural than urban; but when one looks at the participation levels of different segments of the urban labor force, the fact that skilled urban cadres, not the unskilled peasant mass, were the leading political actors can be seen over and over again. These workers possessed experience, political connections, and the degree of economic security which enabled them to function freely and easily in the political life of 1917.52

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