Today is another anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" and the beginning of the First Russian Revolution. On January 9, 1905, troops shot a demonstration marching with a petition to the Tsar-Father. Later, there was much debate about who was most to blame for all this - Nicholas II, the satraps, the Bolsheviks, pop Gapon, the treacherous Japanese, the evil English or the sinister Freemasons.
In fact, this event served only as a fuse, to the explosion of long-accumulated discontent. It was with the shots of "Bloody Sunday" that the Revolution really rolled through Russia, which in three steps led to the liquidation of the centuries-old Russian Empire and the equally centuries-old monarchy, simultaneously accounting for many of those who wanted to profit from this liquidation.
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Well, about the event itself, since then, no one has written better than Lenin. Unlike Nicholas II and his entourage, he learned his lessons from the failed revolution and in 1917 won the main prize of his life - the opportunity to build a socialist state in Russia. So below, the notes of a revolutionary practitioner who understood the nature of revolutionary processes better than his other contemporaries. This is not a historical study, it is a practical assessment of what is happening and what is especially valuable, many of Lenin's conclusions fit perfectly with what happened in the future. Moreover, given the position of the observer that Lenin then took sitting in Switzerland and the fact that he wrote all this in hot pursuit, it is worth once again noting the sagacity of Ilyich, who saw what was not obvious to many even a few years after the suppression of the Revolution.
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