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Also, sorry, but I can't let this pass, AGRBear, I have no idea where you got the notion that revolutionaries interfered with the Russian war effort. (What, do you think they were like French partisans in WWII, blowing up railway lines?) Could you perhaps cite your sources for such an extraordinary claim?
Do you think it was the factory owners who didn't want their supplies to reach the front? If not them then who? Do you think it was the soldiers who didn't want their countryman to have boots, guns and bullets? If not, then who? Maybe, you think it must have been Rasputin's fault. Or, maybe, you think it must have been the German born Empress because, according to rumors, the Empress was collaborating with her uncle and his fellow generals and causing the mess in transportation....
p. 22 of THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION edited by Harold Shukman
June 1917
>>Factory committee members were initially elected on a non-political basis, but as politics harden along party lines, members began to be elected on party slates. In the early months, the moderate socialist dominated the committees as they did all labour organizations. Being the committees were the first to register the radicalization that was occurring in popular attitudes. Already the First Conference of Petrograd Factory Committees in early June the BOLSHEVIKS were in the ascendant, winning 290 votes for the resolution on control of the economy, as against 72 for the MENSHEVIK resolution and 45 votes for the ANARCHIST resolution.<<
Let stop here for a moment. The Mensheiks, Bolsheviks and Anarchist were REVOLUTIONARIES. We are not talking about rebels or the simple peasants who felt they were being wronged. Bolsheviks >>...were a radical faction, [key words= terrorists]>> of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party when it split in 1903. The Bolsheviks, meaning those in the majority (Mensheviks were the minority), were headed by Lenon, who believed that the revolution must be led by a single centralized party of professional revolutionaries. << p. 61 COMPANION TO RUSSIAN HISTORY by John Paxton.
Mensheviks were of the same mind [terrorists] and followers of Axelrod and Trotsky who wanted a Proletarian Party to work with the liberals in order to replace the autocracy with a democractic constitution. Better known as the group who opposed Leninists.
Anarchist-Communists. p. 19 COMPANION TO RUSSIAN HISTORY by John Paxton: >>An utterly militant party whose members held many views similar to those of the Bolsheviks on individual issues, such as ownership of land, but, unlike them, did not believe in any state structure . They drew their aspirations from Bakunin and Kropotkin.<<
p. 22 of THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION edited by Harold Shukman continued: >>Even before the Kornilov rebellion the committees had become the Bolsheviks' firmest base of support within the labour movement<<
The factory owners were replaced by committee, who slowly released workers and slowed down everything and then closed down operations...
Example: >>200 mines had been closed... In response to such 'sabotage'....<< p. 22 of THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION edited by Harold Shukman.
Shall I continue or do you need more?
AGRBear