What the peoples of the world have experienced in their struggle for justice and freedom still guides us today.
The Great October Revolution “Ten Days that Shook the World” shows what human beings can destroy and build through struggle.
With real images and real witnesses, it tells the story of all the phases in the time period from the bloody despotism of Tsarist Russia to the socialist revolution; the tyranny created by Tsarism, the misery of the people, the intrigues of the palace, Bloody Sunday, the historical role of the social democrats and the revolution created by Lenin's equation with the working class with striking visuals.
Russia, one of the most powerful states in the world, was a tsarist monarchy. Russia's
the name at the head Tsar Nicholas II Romanov’who became the last emperor of the Russian Empire.
In 1913, when the Romanov dynasty was celebrating 300 years of history, it thought that it was God's representative on earth and the guardian of the immutable order!
He was about to learn that the power he had built solely on the church, the throne and the bureaucracy was not sustainable. Because in the Russia of that day Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and Pushkin, He saw the bad order in the country and enlightened the people.
The Russian peasant was poor, worked like a slave, all the land belonged to the Tsar, he had no rights;
In Russia, people were born, lived a miserable life and died.
The people have learned that with the efforts of enlightened people they can overthrow the power of their oppressors and establish the power of the people.
In industrializing Russia, a great migration from the villages to the cities had begun, and peasants working in the industries established in the cities continued to live a miserable and miserable life.
In the cities, the gap between the rich and the poor became more pronounced, and the palace and the slum life were seen as good.
Eventually, the laborers met the strike that would bring them to power, and when they went on strike for the first time, life stopped. The tyrannical state rose up and turned the country into a bloodbath.
The country's intellectuals were shot or sent to Siberia to die.
As the persecution increased in the country, the resistance grew and they reached “Bloody Sunday”.
Two hundred thousand unarmed poor laborers marched to the palace of tyranny for a humane life.
The Tsar's guns spewed death on them, thousands of innocent poor people lost their lives.
The palace grounds and the city were covered in blood and corpses were everywhere.
Tsar said, “As God is my witness, no one has any fault or sin.
Now the Russian people had no choice and the road to revolution was paved.
A huge wave of strikes swept the whole country, millions of laborers participated in this strike and the solidarity of the people's struggle against the tyranny of the palace was ensured.
The vanguard strikers and those who led them were executed 5,000 people, 40,000 were locked up on death row in prisons.
In Russia there was no longer any value in being human.
The outdated order also whetted the appetite of imperialist Germany, which began to hit Russia from the side in order to expand its territory.
With the German-Russian war, the country became even more miserable. In that dirty imperialist war, again the poor were dying and the people were becoming even more miserable.
A great anger is beginning to form in the people against the war created by that dirty order.
Workers and peasants are once again clinging to the strike as their only weapon, strikes are sweeping the whole country and everyone who has had their share of the evils of that order is joining this resistance. .
A major participation in this massive strike is coming from the military. .
In the message given by those leading the resistance, they write that “the people are giving soldiers to the wrong enemy and that soldiers should be given to the people's struggle for equality and freedom, not to the imperialist war”.
The rebels target the Tsar. Turns out he's made of paper, he leaves the throne and runs away.
In October 1917, the armed people's power of the Bolsheviks, organized under the leadership of Lenin, seized power from the Russian people, made a revolution and proclaimed socialism.
A new world has been created in the consciousness of humanity.
With the October revolution, for the first time in the world, a socialist political and social system envisioned by Marxism
the system was established.
And so the most important event that affected the world in this century took place: the workers and peasants in masses overthrew the autocratic system in defense of their class interests.
It was an inspiration to all workers and peasants, to all colonized peoples.
Marxism, the ideological theory of class warfare and the dictatorship of the proletariat as the necessary outcome of this war, and from there the social order of equality and freedom called socialism, and finally communism, was being realized and experienced in practice for the first time.
“After the ”ten days that shook the world", a hundred years have passed without any earth shaking. During this time, socialism, which promised humanity a new world and a new society when it began, has unfortunately failed to offer everyone a more comfortable life and a more democratic order.
Gramsci, in his assessment of the Soviet revolution, sees this struggle as not only an economic struggle.
but as an ideological, political and cultural struggle.
Unlike classical Marxist thought, which emphasized that the importance of ideological, moral and cultural transformation that holds society together should not be ignored, it soon witnessed developments that would lead to the rebirth of state capitalism in Russia.
Not everything went as expected, and the Soviets saw the beginnings of retrograde change.
Unfortunately, the workers of the Soviet Union failed to retain power. Power was seized by a counter-revolutionary bureaucracy that held the collectivist form of property and based itself on it.
“The old exploitative order has reappeared in a new, unique, hitherto unknown form, in the form of the rule of a new bureaucratic class.”
These new regimes are the only alternative that can overcome the world capitalist system in a progressive way.
As a result of the strangulation of the class-power by the counter-revolution-bureaucratic order in the Soviet Union, revisionist orders emerged as a new product of the specific conditions.
We will see, they will see ...
Eventually, the power of the people will definitely throw the anti-people orders into the dustbin of history.