Ten Days That Shook The World (1917 : October Revolution)

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Some Progressive visuals from the human history, which provided a feeling and respect of being a human in the heart, mind and life of the masses of working people.

In the words of John Reed to explain the condition of October Revolution (1917) in Russia:
From the book “Ten Days that shook the world”:

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“In a provincial town I knew a merchant family turned speculator -maradior (bandit, ghoul) the Russians call it.” . . “while the masses of the people got a quarter pound of black bread on their bread cards, he had an abundance of white bread, sugar, tea, candy, cake and butter.... Yet when the soldiers at the front could no longer fight from cold, hunger and exhaustion, how indignantly did this family scream “Cowards!” – “how ashamed they were to be Russians”... When finally the Bolsheviks found and requisitioned vast hoarded stores of provisions, what “Robbers” they were.” (Page- 49.3)

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“As in all such times, the petty conventional life of the city went on, ignoring the Revolution as much as possible. The poets made verses-but not about the Revolution. The realistic painters painted scenes from medieval Russian history-anything but the Revolution.” (Page- 53.5)

“The waiters and hotel servants were organized, and refused tips.” . . . “On the walls of restaurants they put up signs which read, ”No tips taken here-” or, ”Just because a man has to make his living waiting on table is no reason to insult him by offering him a tip!” (Page- 54.2)

“Hundreds of thousands of pamphlets were distributed by thousands of organizations, and poured into the armies, the villages, the factories, the streets. The thirst for education, so long thwarted, burst with the Revolution into a frenzy of expression.” . . . “Russia absorbed reading matter like hot sand drinks water, insatiable. And it was not fables, falsified history, diluted religion, and the cheap fiction that corrupts-but social and economic theories, philosophy, the works of Tolstoy, Gogol, and Gorky....” (Page- 55.1)

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