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The world significance of the Great October Socialist Revolution
The Great October Socialist Revolution marked the beginning of a new era in world history - the victory of socialism and communism.
The victory of the revolution in Russia has made a radical turn in the historical destinies of our country.
The working class and the peasant poor, led by the Communist Party, have fulfilled a historic mission of gigantic significance.
They completely broke up the backward social system and created a new, socialist, most advanced and most democratic system in the world, based not on private property and exploitation, but on public property and relations of comradely cooperation of people free from exploitation.
The great strength of the October Revolution, its invincible power, consists in the fact that it was the only revolution in the world that gave the people not only political results, but also material conditions for a prosperous life.
The country of socialism has opened up boundless spaces of creative work for every honest worker.
All the collective intelligence of the leading Communist party, all the forces of the working people, freed from the yoke of imperialism, are directed to satisfying the constantly growing material and cultural needs of society.
The revolution divided the world into two camps - the world of socialism and the world of imperialism.
The Great October Socialist Revolution has a huge international significance, which determined the development of the entire world history.
The greatest international significance of the October Socialist Revolution is that the Russian proletariat was the first in the world to overthrow the power of the capitalists, the first to establish the power of the workers and gave the world the Soviets - the state form of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
The October socialist Revolution destroyed the legend created by the bourgeoisie and its right socialist agents about bourgeois democracy as the" highest "and" eternal " achievement of humanity.
V. I. Lenin exposed the corruption of bourgeois democracy, revealed the treason of its so called "socialist" defenders and opened a new, Soviet form of power.
Since the establishment of Soviet power in Russia, the ratio of backward and advanced countries has radically changed: the Soviet revolution created the most advanced and most democratic system of power.
As a result of the October Socialist Revolution, for the first time in the history of mankind, a class dictatorship was established not to protect the self serving interests of one class and strengthen the exploitation of other classes, as was the case in slave owning, feudal and capitalist societies, but to protect the interests of all workers and destroy all exploitation.
Unlike all other revolutions, which replaced one form of exploitation of the working people with another form, but retained the exploitation itself, the October Socialist Revolution aimed at the destruction of all exploitation in general and the elimination of all exploiters and oppressors.
The dictatorship of the proletariat was the instrument of the socialist revolution, its organ ensuring the solution of this majestic task.
The first decrees of the Second Congress of Soviets proclaimed peace and the abolition of landowner ownership of land.
In the very first days of its existence, the Soviet government abolished class status, destroyed national and religious restrictions, separated church from state and school from church, equalized women's rights with men - eliminated all remnants of feudalism, class status and inequality in all areas of public life.
In order to eliminate the economic power of the bourgeoisie and create a socialist economy, in the first period the Soviet government introduced workers ' control over the production and distribution of products, and then, step by step, carried out the nationalization of banks, railways, the merchant fleet and all large scale industry.
Socialist nationalization eliminated the main contradiction of capitalism - the contradiction between the social nature of production and the private property form of appropriation.
In the crucial areas of industry, public ownership of the means of production has been established as the basis of socialist production relations.
An 8 hour working day was introduced everywhere.
Private ownership of land was abolished forever and replaced by nationwide state ownership of land.
The land was nationalized.
The landlords, appanages, monasteries and lands of the bourgeoisie - more than 150 million dessiatines were donated for the use of the peasantry.
Moreover, the Soviet government transferred the land to the peasants not only without direct redemption, but also without any hidden redemption: the peasants received the land without transferring bank debts to them, because the debts for the land pledged in banks - over 5 billion rubles in gold were canceled.
The peasantry, having received the long awaited land, was spared from the annual costs of buying land and from lease payments to landowners in total in the amount of over 700 million rubles in gold.
The peasants were also freed from other diverse forms of oppression, for example, from the need to use landowners ' forest lands at exorbitant prices, etc.
Numerous buildings from the landowners 'estates and a large number of the landowners' living and dead inventory passed into the hands of the peasants.
In the first months of the revolution, the Soviet state provided enormous material and financial assistance to the peasantry - with inventory, seeds, the organization of rental points, sending agronomic workers to the village.
An important role in improving the situation of the peasantry was played by the transformation of cooperatives and agricultural partnerships from capitalist ones that support the well to do strata into organizations that provide assistance to the peasant poor, into organizations that contributed to the gradual socialist reorganization of the peasant economy.
The old exploitative state apparatus was broken, the sabotage of officials organized by counter revolutionary parties was eliminated.
The Soviet administrative apparatus was created.
To combat sabotage and counter revolution, the Soviet government organized the All Russian Emergency Commission (CHEKA).
Instead of the old army, which formed the main part of the bourgeois apparatus of power, it was a crime to create the armed forces of the revolution - the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army and the Red Fleet.
From the very first days of its existence, the Soviet government began to eliminate Russia's semi colonial dependence on foreign capitalism.
All enterprises owned by foreign capitalists were nationalized, a monopoly of foreign trade was introduced, and all foreign loans concluded on bonded terms by the tsar and the bourgeois Provisional government, amounting to over 12 billion rubles, not counting interest, were canceled.
The Soviet state immediately began implementing measures aimed at creating a socialist culture — eliminating the illiteracy of the people, destroying all obstacles to the masses receiving education, opening new schools and higher educational institutions, turning the achievements of culture, science and art into the national heritage.
The dictatorship of the proletariat brought national liberation to all the peoples of Russia.
Having set itself the task of eliminating the exploitation of man by man, the working class could not leave untouched the exploitation of other peoples by the ruling classes of one nation.
The Communist Party understood, and the course of history has confirmed this, that central Russia cannot complete the revolution and defend its conquests without the help and support of the working people of the national regions, just as the latter could not break out of the imperialist bondage without the political, military and organizational help and support of the Russian working class.
The revolutionary government not only implemented national equality, but also began to eliminate actual inequality, helping backward nations to rise to the level of advanced nations by all means and means.
The October Revolution destroyed all the national and state privileges of the previously dominant nation.
The multinational socialist State created under the leadership of the Communist Party ensured the friendship and cooperation of all peoples without exception in the construction of a socialist society.
The greatest merit of the October Revolution is that it created a state system that is based on the equal participation of all peoples in the construction of socialism.
This was the final defeat of the imperialist "theory" that the only method of liberating oppressed nations is the method of bourgeois nationalism, the method of separating nations by strengthening national hostility and inciting the working people of different nations against each other.
In the Soviet country, the proletarian, international method of liberating oppressed nations has been implemented in the form of a voluntary union of workers and workers of various nations on the basis of full and real equality of peoples.
The Great October Revolution opened up the possibility for the transformation of bourgeois nations into socialist nations and the creation of socialist nations among peoples who had not passed the stage of capitalism.
From the very first steps of its activity, the Soviet government fought against the imperialist war, for peace for all peoples, but this is exactly what the governments of the imperialist powers did not want.
The Second Congress of Soviets, which adopted the decree on peace, invited all the peoples and all the governments of the warring countries to begin negotiations on an armistice, and then to conclude a general democratic peace.
The Soviet government confirmed its proposal by publishing secret agreements concluded behind the back of the people and against the interests of the people.
The whole world has become convinced that the words of the Soviet government do not diverge from the deed.
Exhausted by the war, humanity met the Soviet peace proposals with joy and hope.
In Austria Hungary and Germany, in France and the United States, in the largest warring countries, mass demonstrations and stormy rallies unfolded, at which workers advocated support for the peace proposals of the Soviet government, demanded an end to the hated war.
The governments of the states that were former allies of tsarist Russia the United States, England, France, Japan, Italy and others refused to participate in the negotiations.
Fearing the indignation of the masses of the people, the imperialist governments have never openly declared that they do not want to enter into negotiations for an armistice.
In fact, the imperialists of the United States, Britain and France took all measures to disrupt the peace negotiations.
In parliaments and in the press, representatives of the Entente insisted that they were waging a national liberation war, and solemnly promised to give freedom to the Slavs who were groaning under the oppression of the Habsburgs, but in fact, secretly from the peoples, they offered Austria Hungary to preserve the national yoke.
The Entente imperialists traded peoples and betrayed the interests of the southern and Western Slavs who rose to fight the Austro German invaders in the name of national independence.
The imperialists conducted secret negotiations with Germany in order to crush the young Soviet power with the help of German troops.
Trembling before the masses, who enthusiastically welcomed the Soviet peace policy, the imperialists resorted to any means to undermine the confidence of the masses in the Bolsheviks, in their peace proposals.
US President Wilson published a hypocritical, completely false platform "14 points", which covered up an aggressive plan of American monopolists aimed at dismembering Russia and establishing an American dictate in the world.
All the forces of the old world, both in the person of international imperialism and the ruling classes of pre revolutionary Russia, supported by the Trotskyist Bukharin provocateurs of war, took up arms against the peaceful policy of the Soviet government, setting as their task the elimination of Soviet power, the destruction of its influence on the working people of the whole world.
The imperialists of the United States, Britain and France then thwarted the cause of the struggle for peace, forcing humanity to shed blood for another year, to make new huge sacrifices in the name of the profits of the monopolists.
The Soviet government, through the fault of the international imperialists, who thwarted the cause of the struggle for universal peace, was forced to move to separate negotiations with Germany.
Lenin and Stalin proposed to sign peace with Germany.
The conditions of peace were difficult.
But the young Soviet republic did not yet have an army.
To continue the war with Germany at that time meant to ruin the revolution.
The conclusion of peace gave Soviet Russia a respite, allowed it to strengthen Soviet power, begin peaceful construction and begin creating a Red Army capable of defending the Soviet country from any enemy.
The Russian proletariat has taken upon itself to protect the interests of the nation, because all the bourgeois and petty bourgeois parties have betrayed the interests of the people to foreign imperialists, have betrayed the national sovereignty and independence of Russia.
It was the Russian working class, together with the proletariat of all the peoples of Russia, who led the multinational working peasantry, acted as a representative and defender of the interests of the nation and achieved victory in the struggle for peace, for the elimination of Russia's backwardness and semi colonial dependence on foreign imperialists.
The Great October Socialist Revolution was a profound popular revolution.
It raised the struggle for the elimination of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat of the working people of all the peoples of Russia.
It vividly revealed the role of the Russian people, which was so highly appreciated by the leader and teacher of the working people, Lenin, who taught that the proletariat and its party are full of national pride for their fatherland.
V. I. Lenin was proud that the Russian people had given humanity the greatest examples of the struggle for freedom, that it had given birth to the most revolutionary proletariat in the world, which had created the Communist Party.
The October Socialist Revolution was a classic implementation of the Marxist Leninist theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
V. I. Lenin taught that the dictatorship of the proletariat is a class alliance of the proletariat and the working masses of the peasantry with the leading role of the working class for the overthrow of capital, for the final victory of socialism.
This Leninist theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat was implemented in Russia by the October Revolution.
The victory of Lenin's theory of the proletarian revolution dealt a decisive blow to the treacherous, opportunist theory of the Social Democrats about the impossibility of the victory of socialism in one country.
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