The Great October Socialist Revolution… The 1917 October Revolution was named as such for years in the Soviet Union and in the written documents of the international communist movement. In Russian it was very poetic, Velikaya Oktyabrskaya Sotsyalisticheskaya Revolyutsiya. In many ways, it was a poetic revolution.  It was great, of course, very great. … Continue reading “Lenin and the Revolution, from February to October”