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Someone suggested that I create a glossary of the political parties so people won't feel so drowned in names and acronyms and I thought it was a fantastic idea. Kadets The Kadets, or the Constitutional Democratic Party, were the main party of liberal capitalism in Russia, formed from a merger...

Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline By GiantMonkeyMan Chapter 11: In some ways it was almost an exchange of prisoners. Lenin, Martov, and the other prisoners of the Provisional Government emerged one after the other over the first week of September as the legal proceedings...

As I said before, it's a major fake-out to trick you. Cossacks will be riding up the Don in the next chapter and wiping out the Reds first in Moscow and then in Petrograd. Chapter after that is the restoration of liberal democracy and it turns out that everything would have been absolutely...

So, it's been a while since I updated this. Thanks to Nyvis for reading the drafts and for Sumeragi for help sourcing materials. Hope you enjoy and don't hesitate to comment or ask questions! Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline by GiantMonkeyMan Interlude: Soviets, Unions...

This is the last of the old chapters. Posting them bit by bit has allowed me a little bit of time to write ahead and tomorrow I'll be posting a completely new chapter here and elsewhere such as SV. Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline by GiantMonkeyMan Chapter 10: The tepid...

This is my councillor. :p

Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline by GiantMonkeyMan Chapter 9: By the beginning of August, the faltering of the left-wing parties in the face of reaction had already begun to swing around and the left was once again rapidly growing. This was exemplified nowhere clearer in...

At the beginning of August in 1917, when the reactionaries were in ascendance, members of the Black Hundreds and those who'd participated in pogroms were released from prison by reactionary officers. Trotsky writes, "The Bolsheviks remained in the Kresty Prison, where a hunger strike of arrested...

Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline by GiantMonkeyMan Chapter 8: The crisis in the Provisional Government over the situation in the Ukraine and the intense conflict in the streets at the beginning of the month led to the collapse of the First Coalition Government and the...

Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline by GiantMonkeyMan Chapter 7: Once again the masses of Petrograd poured out onto the streets and once again the sailors of Kronstadt, the workers of the Vyborg district, and the soldiers of the First Machine Gun regiment were at the...

Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline by GiantMonkeyMan Chapter 6: Inspecting the troops just days before Kerensky ordered the beginning of his offensive, General Anton Denikin despaired at the state of the army. Where sentries should have been posted, soldiers played cards...

Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline by GiantMonkeyMan Chapter 5: The proclamation of the Soviet Executive Committee banning demonstrations on the weekend of the Bolshevik's planned march threw the Bolshevik leadership into a fit of panic. Six members of the Central Committee...

Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline by GiantMonkeyMan Chapter 4: Embodying the thoughts of the multitude of reformist socialists, Maxim Gorky expressed a great deal of pessimism towards the most radical sections of the working classes and their spontaneous acts of vandalism...

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Saving Soviet Democracy: A Russian Revolution Timeline by GiantMonkeyMan Interlude: The Bolsheviks In March of 1872, a dense tome thudded on the desk of the Tsarist state's censure. In meticulous and laborious detail, it laid out the conditions and mechanisms of a system that was seemingly...