100 years ago (documents) Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/history/100-years-ago-documents/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Thu, 30 Nov 2017 23:00:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 100 years ago (documents) Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/history/100-years-ago-documents/ 32 32 22825446 ‘All Power to the Soviets’ – A slogan that launched a revolution https://johnriddell.com/2017/11/28/all-power-to-the-soviets-a-slogan-that-launched-a-revolution/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/11/28/all-power-to-the-soviets-a-slogan-that-launched-a-revolution/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:05:47 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4876 The following talk was presented by video to meetings organized by Socialist Alliance in Australia on 7 November 2017. The 30-minute video is available here.  By John Riddell. Tonight we’re going to revisit the Russian revolution by telling the story of a slogan that shaped its outcome, “All power to the soviets.” Before beginning, I […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/11/28/all-power-to-the-soviets-a-slogan-that-launched-a-revolution/feed/ 0 4876 ‘Workers and soldiers: Everything is working in our favor’ https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/22/workers-and-soldiers-everything-is-working-in-our-favor/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/22/workers-and-soldiers-everything-is-working-in-our-favor/#respond Sat, 22 Jul 2017 14:26:07 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=4369 ‘1917: The view from the streets’ – leaflets of the Russian Revolution #16-17. One hundred years ago this week, the Bolsheviks responded to the ‘July Days’ setback by calling on working people to ignore provocations and expose rightist slanders. This is the last of the “View from the Streets” series. See “Afterword” by Barbara Allen, […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/07/22/workers-and-soldiers-everything-is-working-in-our-favor/feed/ 0 4369 A controversial Bolshevik appeal finds an echo in the streets https://johnriddell.com/2017/06/21/a-controversial-bolshevik-appeal-finds-an-echo-in-the-streets/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/06/21/a-controversial-bolshevik-appeal-finds-an-echo-in-the-streets/#respond Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:52:11 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3919 ‘1917: The View from the Streets’ – leaflets of the Russian Revolution #12-13. One hundred years ago today, on June 22 (9) 1917, the Bolshevik Party circulated among Petrograd workers the first proclamation below (drafted by Joseph Stalin). Nine days later, the Bolsheviks’ slogans won mass support at a giant Soviet-called demonstration.  In mid-May, the […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/06/21/a-controversial-bolshevik-appeal-finds-an-echo-in-the-streets/feed/ 0 3919 Moderate socialists call for peace – and renewed offensives https://johnriddell.com/2017/05/15/moderate-socialists-call-for-peace-and-renewed-offensives/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/05/15/moderate-socialists-call-for-peace-and-renewed-offensives/#respond Mon, 15 May 2017 09:04:32 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3742 ‘1917: The view from the streets’ – leaflets of the Russian Revolution #10-11 One hundred years ago, on May 15 (2), 1917, the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies issued two appeals – one to all socialists of the world and the other to all soldiers at the front. In […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/05/15/moderate-socialists-call-for-peace-and-renewed-offensives/feed/ 0 3742 ‘The only guarantee of Polish independence is international solidarity’ https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/16/the-only-guarantee-of-polish-independence-is-international-solidarity/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/16/the-only-guarantee-of-polish-independence-is-international-solidarity/#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:48:43 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3510 Proclamation of Polish socialist workers in Petrograd “1917: The View from the Streets” – leaflets of the Russian revolution – #8 One hundred years ago today, on March 17 (4) 1917, the following appeal calling on Polish workers to support the Russian Revolution and fight for Polish independence was adopted at a rally of Polish […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/16/the-only-guarantee-of-polish-independence-is-international-solidarity/feed/ 0 3510 ‘Soldiers, take power into your own hands!’ https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/14/soldiers-take-power-into-your-own-hands/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/14/soldiers-take-power-into-your-own-hands/#respond Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:39:07 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3501 ‘Your representatives and worker deputies should become the people’s Provisional Revolutionary Government.’ “1917: The View from the Streets” – leaflets of the Russian revolution – #7 100 years ago today, on March 14 (1), 1917, the Social Democratic Interdistrict Committee (Mezhrayonka), supported by the Petersburg Committee of Socialist-Revolutionaries, issued the following appeal to soldiers. At […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/14/soldiers-take-power-into-your-own-hands/feed/ 0 3501 ‘For a general strike against autocracy’ https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/12/for-a-general-strike-against-autocracy/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/12/for-a-general-strike-against-autocracy/#respond Sun, 12 Mar 2017 13:41:34 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3471 Culmination of the Russian February Revolution “1917: The View from the Streets”: Leaflets of the Russian revolution – #6. 100 years ago today, on March 12 (February 27) 1917, Socialists in Petrograd distributed the following appeal for an insurrectional general strike to bring down tsarism. That day, the culmination of the Russian February revolution, witnessed […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/12/for-a-general-strike-against-autocracy/feed/ 0 3471 ‘For a provisional revolutionary government of workers and poor peasants’ https://johnriddell.com/2017/02/15/for-a-provisional-revolutionary-government-of-workers-and-poor-peasants/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/02/15/for-a-provisional-revolutionary-government-of-workers-and-poor-peasants/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:42:50 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3253 “1917: The View from the Streets” – leaflets of the Russian revolution – #4. 100 years ago this week, in February 1917, the Bolshevik Petersburg Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party issued the following proclamation as a response to Menshevik appeals to workers to come out in support of the Duma (parliament) on […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/02/15/for-a-provisional-revolutionary-government-of-workers-and-poor-peasants/feed/ 0 3253 ‘Only a provisional government can bring freedom and peace’ https://johnriddell.com/2017/02/05/only-a-provisional-government-can-bring-freedom-and-peace/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/02/05/only-a-provisional-government-can-bring-freedom-and-peace/#respond Mon, 06 Feb 2017 04:27:23 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3214 ‘1917: The View from the Streets’ – leaflets of the Russian revolution – #3 100 years ago today, on February 6 (January 24), 1917, a Menshevik-influenced workers’ group within the Central War Industry Committee issued the following appeal for a demonstration calling for a provisional government. The War Industry Committees were set up by Russian […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/02/05/only-a-provisional-government-can-bring-freedom-and-peace/feed/ 0 3214 ‘The day of the people’s wrath is near’ https://johnriddell.com/2017/01/21/the-day-of-the-peoples-wrath-is-near/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/01/21/the-day-of-the-peoples-wrath-is-near/#respond Sat, 21 Jan 2017 22:13:36 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3199 ‘1917: The View from the Streets’ – leaflets of the Russian revolution #2 100 years ago today, on January 22 (9) 1917, an estimated 150,000 workers in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) carried out a protest strike against the war and the tsarist autocracy, a foreshock of the Russian revolution that broke out six weeks later (see […]

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