PugJesusWhat tankies mean when they talk about "Left Unity"
MyBrainHurtsLook, all you have to do to avoid the Gulag is only have correct opinions. It’s not that hard!
CruxifuxLenin didn’t like how the November 1917 election went, and had the winners arrested when they refused to disband and grant Lenin full constitutional authority.
The winners of that election represented the rural socialists.
Just curious, what were rural socialists agendas that Lenin was so worried about? I’m sure they felt exploited by people in cities over food production. So that’s probably one item, and what was their proposed solution there?
I don’t think it mattered what the rural socialists wanted.
Lenin was not involved in the February Revolution because he was in exile. He returned to Russia sometime in the spring of 1917 to immediately start rabble rousing.
He launched a coup against the interim government to seize control.
Now, the interim government had promised elections to write a new constitution.
Lenin allowed these elections to proceed, but he and his Bolsheviks lost. He then started screaming about how it wasn’t fair that he didn’t win, and demanded that the winners bow to his demands.
They refused, and Lenin had the constitutional assembly shut down after their first day, and then arrested the members.
This kicked off the Russian civil war, and was the impetus for Lenin to ban other political parties.
Constantly. Both Lenin and Stalin sentenced those further-left than them to GULAG en masse.
RememberTheApollo_The people that wanted actual rights and a say in government, and disagreed with authoritarianism. I don’t know that I’d call them “further left”, they just dared to disagree with a cruel dictatorship.
ForeverAndaDay@PugJesus anarkiddies when they assist fascists in trying to overthrow a budding socialist state (they break the law) (they get thrown in jail)