<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> Well, the American revolutionaries were supported by a minority too -- about 1/3 of the pop. If there was so little support for the bolshies why was it such a quiet revolution? Why did the civil war have to be fomented by outside powers? Why did the bolshies win the civil war? I am not an expert but I hazily remember that the twenties was an era of high hopes in the USSR. Joanna Chris Doss wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid20060726170508.31672.qmail@web37213.mail.mud.yahoo.com"> <pre wrap=""> --- joanna <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:123hop@comcast.net"><123hop@comcast.net></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I could see why a bunch of starving, barefoot, illiterate peasants might have had "messianic" projects in 1917. For them, it was absolutely not a mistake. I would also argue that it wasn't a mistake for anyone. Joanna </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> The peasantry tended to support the Socialist Revolutionaries and, in Ukraine, the Anarchists and Ukrainian nationalists, IIRC. It's my impression that the Bolsheviks were supported by a minority of the population (unlike a decade or two later, when Stalin really did have the support of the majority of the population). I could be wrong about that however. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mail.yahoo.com">http://mail.yahoo.com</a> ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>