"The October Revolution brought us Marxism-Leninism with the sound of a cannon." --Mao Zedong
The Aurora, which fired the cannon of victory
As the world's first successful proletarian revolution, its historical significance is undoubtedly very great. Next, we analyze the background, process, and significance of the October Revolution.
I. Background of the October Revolution
Attack the Hermitage
After the reforms of Tsarist Russia in 1861, the capitalist economy began to develop, and then Russia also entered the imperialist powers, but the reforms retained a large number of feudal remnants, which led to the oppression of the vast number of poor people not only by the feudal landlords and bureaucratic classes dominated by the Tsar, but also by the exploitation of the capitalists. Thus, the social and class contradictions within Russia are so acute that they can be ignited by just one spark, and it soon appears. In 1914, World War I broke out. Russia, as the Allied Powers, also declared war on Germany and Austria and launched an attack with a million troops within a month, but because Russia, as the weakest of the imperialist countries, coupled with the arbitrary command of the Tsar, the Russian army was repeatedly defeated, and at the same time the war also caused the intensification of social and class contradictions in Russia, the soaring prices, the sharp decline in the people's living standards, and the officials only knew that they were full of money and did not care whether the people were dead or alive, so that even the capitalists were dissatisfied with what the Tsarist government had done, intending to overthrow, and at the same time the vast number of peasants, Soldiers and workers also rose up in revolt. The February Revolution of 1917 successfully overthrew the Tsarist rule and established a provisional government led by the bourgeoisie and a Bolshevik party composed of workers and soldiers. But the class contradictions between the two doomed to a war between them. As the Provisional Government continued to participate in the First World War regardless of the lives of the people, which eventually led to the bloodshed in July, and the two regimes came to an end, the Bolshevik Party, headed by Lenin, decided to abandon its illusions and prepare for struggle!
Comrade Lenin is giving a speech
The course of the October Revolution
The revolutionary army is attacking
On the evening of November 7, 1917 (October 25 in the Russian calendar), Lenin and others secretly went to the Smolny Palace to direct the uprising, and the rebel soldiers and workers quickly captured the bridge and other key points, and with the sound of the Aurora cannon, the rebel soldiers and workers launched an attack on the Winter Palace, the seat of the Provisional Government. At the same time, Lenin convened the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets and promulgated the "Land Decree" and the "Peace Decree", which stipulated that the landlord land ownership system would be changed to the land state ownership system, and at the same time the peace treaty with Germany and Austria would be signed, withdraw from the First World War, and the first Soviet government, the People's Commissariat, under the chairmanship of Lenin, was formed, and the world's first socialist country was born. The victory of the armed uprising in Petrograd laid the foundation for the victorious advance of Soviet power. From October 1917 to February 1918, the revolution spread throughout Russia.
Iii. The Significance of the October Revolution
It can be said that the success of the October Revolution was like lighting a light in the long night. Its success not only established the first socialist state under the leadership of the proletariat, but also opened up a new era for mankind to explore the socialist road, spread Marxism-Leninism throughout the world, and greatly shocked the capitalist world. Under the global imperialist countries and colonial and semi-colonial countries, a red light has been lit up, and the national liberation movement of the people of many colonial and semi-colonial countries has been encouraged, and it has proved through practice that the poor and weak countries can also take the socialist road, and use the proletarian cosmology as a tool to observe the fate of the country and reconsider their own problems. Promote the exploration of the Chinese to the socialist road.
Finally, I would like to end with a famous quote by Mr. Li Dazhao: Try to see the future of the world, it will be the world of red flags!