On Nov 12, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
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> The Russian revolution would have flopped without the support of the
> military or at least a significant part of it.
> In fact the Russian Revolution had virtually no support at all among
> the military, ie., the professional officer and sub-officer corps.
> The revolution had the overwhelming support of the soldiers and
> sailors--peasants and workers enslaved as cannon fodder by the
> Tsarist military. Only once the Soviet Power had been established
> and come to incarnate the Russian national state did some, a small
> minority, of officers (like General Brussilov) agree to fight in
> the Red Army. And many of them had so little loyalty that their
> families had to be held as hostages!
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64