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Introduction: The New Russian Revolution
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CURRENT ISSUES
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11 / 1991 |
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August's astounding and historic events in the Soviet Union call for this Special Feature to keep WORLD & I readers abreast of the past, present, and future of what is being called a "second Russian revolution." That designation is based on the common assumption that the "first" Russian revolution was the armed takeover led by V.I. Lenin that began November 7, 1917.
History shows, however, that a democratic revolution had already occurred months earlier, and that Lenin and his Red Army suppressed it. In other words, Lenin's forcible imposition of Marxist-Leninist rule should rightly be called a counterrevolution.
This August, therefore, the Russian people can be said to have freed their original revolution from the dying grasp of Lenin's Communist Party. At long last, representative democracy is being established, the nationalities are being given a chance to fulfill their individual destinies, and the largest unbroken political unit in the world is getting back on track as a positive player in human history.
Many Americans find it hard to fathom the causes of these back-to-back upheavals. However, there is a sense of historic inevitability about them. In fact, a Soviet break down was predicted here years ago.
In the premier January 1986 issue of THE WORLD & I, R.V. Burks, professor emeritus at Michigan's Wayne State University, predicted a "system breakdown in the Soviet Union within the next five to ten years." WORLD & I Editor and Publisher Morton A. Kaplan also foresaw the coming storm, as revealed in his article in this year's April
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