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The historical significance of the October Revolution
Period: XX century.
author: World History
M. Azizbekov.
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The Great October Socialist Revolution was a natural result of the world historical process that led humanity to the socialist revolution and put the working class of Russia in the vanguard of the world revolutionary movement.
It won because it was led by the Russian proletariat, which had a huge experience of struggle, before all other classes of Russia created its own political party under the brilliant leadership of V. I. Lenin the Bolshevik Party - and became the main driving force of the entire socio political development of the country.
In the course of the struggle, a fighting alliance was formed between the proletariat and the peasant poor, who made up the majority of the people.
The Union of Workers and Peasants, headed by the workers, was embodied in the Soviets — a new form of revolutionary state power.
The decisive condition for the victory of the October Revolution was that the revolutionary Bolshevik party, armed with an advanced Marxist Leninist theory, stood at the head of the masses of the people.
During the preparation and conduct of the October Revolution, Marxism Leninism was further developed and enriched with new theoretical provisions in the decisions of the party, in the works of V. I. Lenin.
The October Revolution was an example of the implementation of Lenin's theory of the socialist revolution.
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The speed and ease of the victory of the revolution are also explained by the fact that the working class met a relatively weak opponent in the face of the Russian bourgeoisie.
The backwardness of Russian capitalism, its dependence on foreign imperialism, the historical conditions in which it developed, led to a special reactionary, political flabbiness and lack of experience of the Russian bourgeoisie.
The petty bourgeois parties of the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries, who openly joined the camp of the counter revolution, exposed themselves in the eyes of the people and found themselves politically isolated.
The international situation also contributed to the success of the revolution: both imperialist coalitions, engaged in war with each other, could not immediately provide the Russian bourgeoisie with much armed assistance.
The speeches of the international proletariat with expressions of solidarity and sympathy provided effective support to the Russian working class.
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The October Revolution produced a radical revolution in the historical destinies of Russia.
The working class, in alliance with the peasant poor, overthrew the power of the exploiters and established its political leadership of society, its dictatorship, thereby creating the necessary conditions for the victory of the socialist system.
He smashed the old state machine, nationalized factories, factories, banks, confiscated large land property, liquidated class and class privileges, created organs of his state power — Soviets of Workers 'and Peasants' Deputies.
In the form of Soviet power, a new type of democracy emerged — democracy for the broadest masses of the people, who for the first time in the history of mankind became masters of their fate.
"The very emergence of the USSR and even the first difficult years of its existence," notes the American writer Theodore Dreiser, " laid the foundation for a very convincing and uncontroversial argument, which has now become indestructible.
A nation has appeared on the world stage, justifiably claiming that our system gives not the owner of capital, but its producer a fairly and conveniently built life and all the benefits that geniuses, art, science and the forces of the human mind are able to invent.
This light inevitably became not only a beacon for Russia, but also a powerful searchlight, mercilessly revealing and exposing the machinations, deceit, conflicts generated by greed, dark prejudices and garbage of the capitalist system."
From all previous revolutions, the October Socialist Revolution did not lead to the replacement of one form of exploitation by another, but to the elimination of all exploitation of man by man; it destroyed forms of social and national oppression, national inequality, raising the previously unequal peoples of Russia to the position of free and equal peoples.
The socialist revolution saved Russia from the impending economic and national catastrophe, from the threat of dismemberment and enslavement by British, American, German and other imperialists.
It proclaimed a policy of peace and pointed out to all peoples the ways out of the bloody imperialist world war.
"When the liberated humanity celebrates the dates of its liberation," wrote the French writer Henri Barbusse, " then with the greatest enthusiasm, with the greatest enthusiasm, it will celebrate the day of October 25, 1917, the day when the Soviet state was born, one of the first decrees of which was the Decree on Peace."
The historical significance of the October Revolution
The victory of the Great October Revolution was of great international significance.
V. I. Lenin wrote: "We have the right to be proud and consider ourselves happy that we were the first to bring down in one corner of the globe that wild beast, capitalism, which flooded the earth with blood, brought humanity to starvation and savagery..."
The October Revolution was a profound revolution not only in the economy, in the class structure of society, but also in the ideology of the working class.
The great victory won under the banner of Marxism Leninism dealt a tremendous blow to the ideology of opportunism and revisionism, raised the world labor movement to a new, higher level.
The October Revolution turned Russia into the first hotbed of socialism, supported by the working people of the whole world, and confirmed for the working class of Russia the role of the vanguard of the working people of all countries in the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism, for the socialist transformation of society.
Fighting for the preservation of the gains of October and in the future for the construction of socialism, the working class of Russia has always felt the support of the proletarians of the capitalist countries.
At the same time, the workers of the capitalist states, in their revolutionary struggle for the cause of progress, for socialism, have acquired a reliable friend and colleague.
In the relations of the Soviet working class with the proletarians of the capitalist countries, the principle of proletarian internationalism was vividly expressed.
"We not only associated ourselves with the Russian revolution," writes the general secretary of the French Communist Party, Maurice Thorez— " we considered the October Socialist Revolution to be our own vital cause, the cause of the proletariat of France and all countries.
We regarded it as our property, as the property of the entire international working class movement, and we, the proletarians of France, declared our faith in it and our duty to learn from Lenin."
The influence of the Great October Socialist Revolution on other countries was due to the fact that its main laws and features of development have, according to V. I. Lenin, "not local, not nationally special, not only Russian, but international significance".
At the same time, as V. I. Lenin pointed out, it is necessary to keep in mind not only the direct revolutionizing effect of the October Revolution, but also "the international significance or historical inevitability of a repetition on an international scale of what we had."
The general laws of the Great October Socialist Revolution were later brilliantly confirmed by the experience of other countries, where the socialist revolutions won and the construction of socialism began.
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