On Nov 8, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
John Adams wrote:
I'm still wondering how the Bolsheviks could
have been suckered into supporting Kerensky.
The Bolsheviks supported Kerensky until they didn't. They set out to
overthrow Kerensky in the fall, when he refused to go after Kornilov,
who was openly plotting against the revolution (the February
revolution, that is)...
Am I right?...
Not in the least. The Bolsheviks never supported Kerensky (although
the police infiltrator Stalin had supported Kerensky's predecessor,
Prince Lvov, before Lenin returned to set matters to rights). Their
central programmatic demands thenceforward were "All Power to the
Soviets" and "Down With The Provisional Government." The Bolsheviks,
not Kerensky, disarmed Kornilov who thus had ceased to be a threat
well before the November Revolution. The question of POWER was always
central, and it was resolved democratically, by majority vote of the
All-Russian Congress of Soviets authorizing Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik
chairman of its Military Revolutionary Committee, to disperse
Kerensky's Provisional Government and establish a revolutionary
government responsible to the Congress of Soviets.
Which was done, 91 years ago.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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