Idealistic Russian Describes Grim Reality of Revolution (1917) // Diary of Pitirim Sorokin
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Extracts taken from Leaves From A Russian Diary by Pitirim Sorokin:
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Edited by our new editor Manuel Rubio - legend.
Footage from:
Anniversary of the Revolution (Dziga Vertov, 1918)
Kino-Pravda (Dziga Vertov, 1922)
Kino-Eye (Dziga Vertov, 1924)
October (Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov, 1927)
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Bloodless revolution, wonder how long he survived to see how wrong he was.
I'm just wondering why you chose such a biased person to represent this period. Everything he writes is a narrative bending to a certain perspective of this time.
You should specify this is about the February revolution, not the bolshevik revolution
The tragedy is that todays left knows f all about the horrors of Marxism. They have zero concept of how much worse it was for the Russian people than the Tsarist Empire. My mother’s side of the family is from Poland and were interned in Soviet concentration camps. They don’t even have the slightest clue that Rothschild hired his third cousin, Levy Herschel Moredecai, paying him through his brand new toy, the World zionist Congress to write his fake little “communist manifestos”. They only know and worship that p.o.s. through his “culturally appropriated, criminal alias: Karl Marx.
They don’t know that Trotsky and Engles and many of the future Bolsheviks were likewise hired by that family of psychopaths and their Wall Street allies in the United States, like JP Morgan, the ultra racist zionist Jacob Schiff, and the Warburg hsiwej banking brothers. They have zero clue that the entire thing is a zioglobalist plan of the world’s wealthiest, to enslave humanity with their Great Reset and their New World Order. They are exactly what Stalin called bourgeoise poseur leftists LARPing as commies in his day: “useful idiots”.
What is so ironic is that all the people who were so happy for this revolution were subsequently placed under brutal conditions by the new regime... Russia lost so much that it never recovered...
Nothing childish about keeping a diary. There is a lot we wouldn't know if no one had ever done so.
@@timothycook4782 I once read "Diary of a nobody", which I was told was very boring - because the author was nobody special. In fact it was interesting, and insightful of everyday life for a lower middle class man of the time. We have a lot of writings about rich and poor lifestyles, the famous and infamous but those inbetween - not so much.
Just call it a Journal. Then you sound grown up and sophisticated.
Well ur diary will not affect anyone in right hands but in wrong hands it will devastate ur lives, so choose it carefully
@@BrettonFerguson the word 'diary' was acceptable by older people and many of our forebears who were less dumbed down than most people are today. Don't try and be a word snob.
@@angr3819 I think you are projecting your own feelings and experiences into this. I never said anything was wrong with the word diary. I only stated what I think is the truth. If you call it a Journal it is the same thing as a diary, but is viewed as more mature and acceptable simply by calling it by a different word. That is how it is, don't blame me for it being this way. There are thousands of words with the same meaning, but people view the meaning in a better light. It is why euphemisms exist. If I state that people are more likely to accept a thing if one uses a euphemism, that does not make me a word snob. If I had stated that a word is in fact superior, which I did not, that would be snobbish. Not that I care what you think. I'm on a planet inhabited by 99% retards, it's difficult not to be a snob.
"If you contemplate the guilliotine for your enemies, the same guilliotine will cut off your head later." Extremely prophetic.
absolutely, and the tsar that contemplated the guillotine got his head lopped off. do you think revolutions just happen because people are bored or malicious? they happen because of famine, governmental violence, corruption, etc. you don’t gain freedom by being a good peasant, you gain freedom by killing your master
“But I am certain that if you contemplate the guillotine for your enemies, the same guillotine will cut off your head a little later. The guillotine always kills first the well-fed, but later on it gets the poor also. Do not forget this, it may be useful to you if revolution really comes.” That is indeed quite frequently true!
Has a great parallel with modern groups known as “useful idiots” such as antifa and blm. History repeats itself and there is nothing new under the sun
That was so true! That same government ended up murdering tens of millions of their own people.
The revolutionary left tends to forget this
thats ok with me. Getting decapitated is better then starving to death.
It always is. Pretty much every modern revolution has seen this happening. Only exceptions are the fascist revolutions in the thirties and the american one, and there is argument about if those could even be called revolutions.
Those first 60 seconds... exactly as today. Those less accustomed to the harshness of life claim the loudest for revolution.
And should a revolution come, the same fate will befall them.
It speaks more of Sorokin's social cirle than of the actual situation in the country. The revolution started not with those snobs in their salons, but with mass desertions of soldiers and strikes. It was the people who bore the weight of that damned empire on their shoulders, who started the process with several rebellions.
@@Watashiwadeus yep 100%, the notion that it was some kind of plot by intellectuals is just propaganda. We only condemn the revolutions that didn't produce something exactly resembling Western countries, and act as if the people involved should have somehow known what would be produced instead. Russia was hardly a great place to live prior to the revolution, and the people were fighting to make their lives better. Despite all the horrors of post-revolutionary Russia, arguably their lives _did_ get better in many ways. At least for those who were still alive and not imprisoned.
@@monkeymox2544 Yeah but prior to the revolution Russia was the fastest developing nation in the world. Granted, it's because it heavily depended on agriculture but all suggested the quality of life was about to improve. Personally, I think all the blame that came after can be blamed on the communists. They wanted to install communism for the idea instead of the people. If only they weren't so self-righteous and ignorant maybe they would've done better than the tsar.
The young and strong usually want revolution, the old and tired rarely do
"if the bloodshed does not grow, this revolution may go down in history as a bloodless revolution. Long live the bloodless revolution."
Immensely depressing
Because of this revolution, over 100 million recorded deaths due to communism ensued during the rest of the 20th century. Yet the leftists want another go at communism and think they’ll get it right this time. The banality of evil
@@igotfriendsinlowplaces2971 preaching to the choir.
Wished for bloodless, ended up blood soaked through and through
It was obviously more attractive to the working people than the situation they had been put in by their corrupt government, bloodless or no.
@@McShag420 killed all those people with the desire to get rid of corruption and oppression. I think the irony makes it worse.
10:50 “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
blm
@@saltedslug7954 nra
@@Mr10johnny10 hbo
Nitzsche hadn’t seen todays leftards. Both applies with them, the individuals, and the group. And it’s even a little worse than “insanity”, not religious… but… leaning towards “insanity with likely demonic possession”.
@@pauly260 kfc
Being a Russian at just about any point in history is a scary proposition 😮
Stop hating against Russian civilians lol
@@FlamingBasketballClub Where do you see hate?
*Russia is a never ending tragedy.*
@@o.g.millennials Reread the comment 🤡
@@FlamingBasketballClub are you simple? How did you manage to get that from his comment 😂
What’s very interesting is the dynamic between the students and the teacher. The teacher is more well spoken and is just wanting to understand what’s going on while his students are more eager to get into the fight and “defend the Soviets and the revolution”
Absolutely no difference from today. Wild stuff
Except today it is both sides. I never liked the two party system here in America.
Could this be a beautiful bloodless revolution?
Narrator: it was not.
I wonder what his face was when he found out? Or was it smashed in?
Thank you for bringing us once more such an interesting history documentary!
@Black Lesbian Poet oh, you mean the social instability in Russia due to the war in Ukraine, right?
@@victoroyervides6913 lol you can infer what he means and it isn't that.
@@Pragnantweggyboard then what is it? May I ask
@@victoroyervides6913 History repeats.
@@victoroyervides6913 Ukraine lost the current war and those who support either side are ignorant. Evil fighting evil. But I bet you support the current thing?
I imagine it must've been a very anxiety inducing time for any Russian who knew about revolutionary cycles at the time. If one side wins, the revolution continues, with all the horrors and uncertainties it would provide, if the other side wins, the aristocracy continues its mismanagement of the nation.
I know I wouldn't spend a single day without enduring an anxiety attack
Possibly would of, anxiety attacks are a result of modern life. Mental weakness compared to this time period is astronomical.
@@twuandixon8675 Existential dread at the knowledge that dark times are coming.
In the modern era sure, people get anxious over nonsense. That's not to say people of the past wouldn't have anxiety, albiet probably for better reasons.
@@twuandixon8675 I wouldn't say that being untraumatised is mental weakness.
@@twuandixon8675 what is survivorship bias my dude?
Mental illness was waaay more prevalent in the days where treatment was nonexistent. It didn't show up in history books, because it's only a recent development that we stopped culling them or torturing them into incoherency in asylums.
how do you survive here and now? you must be a wreck of a basket case.
The only thing that I would be nice to add would be that this is not October revolution (by Bolsheviks), but February revolution. Just to specify, not everybody knows that.
The documentary is nice. Thanks for the video.
this sounds a lot like october revolution tho
If you watch the video accompanying the reader's voice, you will notice that the diary covers events from February 1917 to December 1917. So it basically covers both the February Revolution as well as the October Revolution.
that is so important it should have been established at the beginning of the vid. Thx for looking out.
@@sarahkoe1903 oh ok thx for clarifyin
@@daylightsavings7186 Its not
I found this one to be genuinely haunting to listen to. Terrifying times to be alive, violent revolutions. Thank you for another fascinating piece of history.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)
Please keep in mind that this was written 30 years after the fact, with very specific political goals. You can tell that this reads more like a structured political polemic than like an actual recounting of events. This point of view is from someone who has an inherent mistrust of the common understanding of the people. You can see this from the way he talks about "responsible government against the mob". In reality, the "mob" formed because the responsible government was more concerned with defending the property of the nobility and the bourgeoisie than with actually bringing to fruition the revolutionary goals of the February revolution. The October revolution was made necessary because of the inherent contradiction of the dual-power system arising out of the February revolution. In that system, you had on one hand the provisional government representing primarily the interests of the propertied classes. On the side of the soviets (the word soviet just means council- an accepted method of democratic organizing since the 1905 unrest), there was the majority of compromisers who likewise feared the abolishment of property rights, and the rapidly growing minority of the Bolshivics, who stood alone in the support of exclusively workers, soldiers, and farmers. They gained popular support only when it became apparent that the provisional government and the other factions within the soviet represented the bourgeoisie liberal revolution if the February days, not the masses who fought that revolution in the first place.
Extremely harrowing
@@Ashley-1917 but won’t new Russia need a court building? Congrats you’ve bought into exactly what created the death of millions of innocent people.
@@Ashley-1917 Would you kindly substantiate your claim that the entirety of these diary excerpts were written 30 years after the revolution?
@@Ashley-1917 lmao
It is worth reading this man's biography on Wikipedia. A very talented individual.
It's never worth reading anything on the lie machine of Wikipedia, you'd be best off trying to find an original copy.
@@mattmcintosh3939 incorrect
@@rktsnail no my friend you are incorrect, its a well known fact that Wikipedia is a Web of lies lol, anyone's allowed to change entries. Maybe it's a good starting point for research but I would do more and look in other places to find the truth of the matter.
@@mattmcintosh3939 it is not never worth reading if you take the time to figure out which parts are lies.
I don't know why but whilst listening to this story the sentence: "The demon was defeated, and the devil appeared." popped up into my head. They overthrew the evil government, only to overlook how the devil appeared.
The greatest mistake made in the midst of chaos it to value action over thought. Thought directs action, simple thoughts result into simple actions. Simple actions cannot solve complex problems. "This is a time for action" should always be preceded or followed by a "plan of action".
Action is what keeps you alive during chaos, the reason Lenin and the bolsheviks took power over the Duma and subsequently the white army is *because* they took action.
Had they used “thoughts” over actions the reactionary movement would have stamped them out of existence. They won against almost insurmountable odds against a well-established monarchy would powerful friends around the world. Read up on the actual history of the revolution, I seriously doubt you have.
But we HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!
Interesting, a Muslim friend once told me that in Islam, it's considered a sin to "panic." Running around crazy without thinking is "haram" or a sin. A proper God-fearing Muslim must sit down and think through his/her problems logically to find a solution. People who panic or act without thinking are seen as a threat to the larger community.
@@juniorjames7076 That's a very sensible religious belief. I like it.
They didn’t overthrow an “evil government”… they killed an innocent family.
My grandfather, then living a privileged, but not extravagant life in Russia, also wrote in his diary at age 18 in the years before the Russian Revolution about the possibilities for the societal restructuring that could benefit all members of Russian society. No one had yet witnessed the practical implementation of the socialist ideologies of Marx and Engels. My very young idealist grandfather hoped for the best for all Russians. My ancestors in Russia were German pacifists who were not in favor of violence or war. You can imagine the shock of the Russian Revolution and later Stalin purges when many of these groups of people, however innocent, became enemies of of the state.
As an American teacher in Istanbul, Turkey from 2013 to 2015 I met many Turkish people descended from "White Russians" who escaped the Bolchevik revolution in 1917 by emigrating to Turkey, many remarried to local Turks, or became Muslim, or stayed Russian Orthodox but thier children married and integrated into Turkish society. So how fascinating it is that a German and Turkish family living side by side in a city like Frieberg, might both be descendants from the same Russian town?
@@juniorjames7076 "I love diversity" 😋😋😋
False and misinformation. USSR wasn't the best country, but it's way better than Russian empire.
Stalin had nothing to do with the Russian Revolution, and actually opposed it until it happened. His rule was symbolic of the revolution's ultimate failure to spread to the developed countries in which Stalin ensured would never happen.
@@BolshevikCarpetbagger1917 Whether he did or didn't have anything to do with the Revolution itself doesn't really matter to me. But, what he did to millions of Russian citizens rivals only Hitler.
Such a fascinating listen and as always well produced .
"Individuals may be mistaken, but a whole nation, never."
How unfortunately wrong.
Very interesting video. I like how the writer slowly becomes more pessimistic about the revolution as it grows out of control
The revolution seemed futuristic and a step forward for average Russians but it ended up being an excuse to rob wealthy peasant. The NKVD liquidators were boiling peasants alive on baseless accusations and seizing their assets afterwards.
That's how almost all revolutions go. There have been very few examples where a revolution didn't descend into chaos and anarchy, with an even worse regime rising in its place. Especially so with "people's" revolutions, which are easily manipulated by another group of elites in the age of mass media. The Bolsheviks are a notable example of this, with much of the leadership being wealthy elitists themselves, manipulating the working class into doing their bidding. Even they were eventually subsumed by the monster that was Stalinism in the end, which further proves the point that there is always a greater monster waiting right outside the door in times of anarchy and strife.
It only seems out of controll if you are someone who wants to exert undue controll over the masses. This writer was a liberal, and feared that the revolution would actually recognize that to meet their goals, they would have to size property. They did.
@@Ashley-1917 yeah, that's what he was worried about. Not the fact that the German plants immediately started promoting more radicalization, violence and death and in order to overthrow the already revolutionary provisional government. It's especially obvious how much of a liberal he was in how he very clearly defended the government that started seizing property compared to the one that followed it.
@@Ashley-1917 ...and whose philosophy would lead to the gulags, and mass starvation. Big win for the people.
Dang, man I love your videos they are unique unlike any others I’ve seen on CZcams. The voice and pictures and everything you do makes the experience even better. I hope you continue to do all topics, and get even better.
This man would have been my friend. I could see his words as mine. Wonderful choice of reading. Thank you.
you would have ignored him cus he isn't 6ft tall and rich
@@TsarOfRuss lol. I’m 5’8” and my hubby’s 5’3”. My mother is 6’1” & dad was 5’2”. And I support our family financially on a very small budget. I like people for the merit they have, not the costumes they ware. I am sorry people are not as accepting of you. It’s their loss!
Lovely, so you miss the old russian elite like that guy.
I wonder what is goverment like in Russia today and what are they doing to Ukraine, hmmmmmmmmm...
@@robertkalinic335The word’s of the man from over 100 years ago are what I could have imagined myself thinking in his situation. This has nothing to do with current political affairs. I am disappointed in your judgment of people being based on station and ethnicity. This kind of thinking is limited because only superficial information is used in understanding a subject. Assuming someone’s good or bad based on their country of birth is a simplified justification for you to hate without having to think.
@@kariannecrysler640 You could just write nothing instead, you agree with him about his sympathy for russian elite and Russia today is ruled by oligarchs who also invaded Ukraine and treat their own people like shit. I cannot imagine you not crying about attacks on authority of such government.
Have you thought about narrating “a journey beyond the three seas”? It’s a 15th century autobiography of a Russian traveller, who went to India
9:04 "Is it not necessary to have a court building for New Russia?" Unfortunately no, courts were not necessary in the Russia that came next.
Narrator: "Long live to bloodless revolution!"
Me as living ~100 years later: "Well ..... no."
"Are you sure about that?"
@@calexander7495 You're right. This is all an illusion, made by Bill Gates and his fellow reptiloid man. Thank you for your comment!
There is no precedent for a nonviolent revolution. It has never happened.
Bloodless revolution doesn't even exist
I took it more as a statement of hope for the perilous future of the revolution, that it would stay that way, sadly he was wrong.
Wonderfully done. The historical photos complement the text very well.
1789 - France
1917 - Russia
1966 - China
2020 - America
History Has a Mysterious Way Of Repeating Itself!
The same people behind all of this research who they are
So well spoken, the vernacular was very...well alot better than ours. This channel is fantastic, thank you for the upload and work done for bringing this to life.
This channel is priceless. I wish it were more "popular", if I had had access to things such as this as a child, one who already had a great interest in history... It's hard to say but I know it would have been a positive thing.
I've been looking for something like this for a while, thanks!
I can imagine that historians towards the end of the Roman Empire, French Revolution and Russian Revolution all felt a similar level of despair wondering what would happen of the society that was established around them. Seeing it crumble around them and thus wondering what would become of the nations that they had always known, been apart of and felt pride being apart of. Even the stoutest of Revolutionaries didn't envision lopping off the heads of those that disagreed with them, most just wanted a better society to encompass the ideals they felt were important. It's sad to think that such good intentions, can lead to such bloody outcomes.
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved
You are absolutely right. I don't think the early stages of any revolution ever calls for the senseless slaughter of others but whenever your goals meet resistance, your inhibitions gradually begin to fade over time. It all comes down to how much you want something and what you are willing to pay. If desperate and hungry enough, the senseless slaughter of your enemies always turns into a possibility. I really hope this doesn't happen in present day USA but I'm getting the same vibes from the libs. The "DUDE, FREE SHIT" campaign promises always wins over the masses of dumb people. Their absolute ignorance is growing everyday....
Look around you.
Are you from either US or Western Europe, my friend? If you are, you are about to experience it pretty soon
Revolutions are always expensive and paid for by rivers of blood. Anyone calling for revolution must be willing to not only pay this price but be willing to force others to pay it as well.
THIS WAS REALLY, WELL PREENTED AND MOST INTERESTING!
I'm a UCLA Undergrad (History/Poli-Sci). Documentyaries such as this always add previously unknown bits & pieces to our knowledge of History. Keep it up!
Thank you!
Dudes, stop. I need sleep these vids are too good and thank you for making them.
What an enthralling title. Can't wait to listen to this on my long drive today.
In my religion, keeping a journal/ diary is extremely important to our identity and for our posterity. I encourage anyone to pick up the habit no matter how old you are.
whats your religion?
What religion is this? I'm intrigued
I'm actually intrigued
It would have to be a religion that also mandates literacy.
Pastafarian?
I love your thumbnail for this video! Its so compelling!
Thank you for this video. I cannot thank *Sorokin* as I'd like, so I thank you.
Just, _thank you._
I didnt know what to listen to tonight. Now I know! Thank you!
15:06 "It was not, in fact, bloodless."
This is why you always should be wary of activist academics. They thought it would be 'interesting' to cause the death of millions. Then this guy yeets off to a cushy Harvard job! "Guess we were wrong. Sorry!"
Activists academics live in a “socially constructed” world. Their entire ideology is based off a theoretical.
If you think this revolution happened because an academic somewhere though revolution was 'interesting' you have failed miserably at understanding Russian history.
This revolution was the result of countless festering issues for years least of all any academic anywhere doing so because he was bored.
In fact if you want to see revolutions largely engineered by intellectuals and the upper class you should look at the French and American revolutions first.
Nobody ever caused a revolution or killed millions of people because they "thought it would be interesting." Such a bad strawman.
It's funny. The name of the ship is "Aurora". Aurora is the morning dawn, and the mornings dawn star is Lucifer. 🤔
🤘
What a cool name
Thank you for this wonderful upload of a first-hand account and descriptions, based on the pages of a personal diary of an individual, of the much more complicated affair which the Bolshevik Revolution was...This however, by no means diminishes the historic value of those events, as described with the immediacy and passion, or as seen through the eyes of an impassioned and idealistic young man, who not only took part in those events, but also suffered the consequences of them, yet lived to tell the tale...Again thank you, I enjoyed this narrative immensely...
Im curious, What do you mean by "diminishes the historic value"?
@@skyebaylis1675 One man's observations do not even scratch the surface of this historic event, but small though they may be, as far as the bigger picture is concerned, this does not make them any less important to Russian, or world history, is what I mean by "not diminishing the value" of the bigger picture... It's still an important first hand eye witness testimony to a most defining moment in history.
Indeed. As with all historic documents, it's important to keep in mind the details if the writing. This was written 30 years after the fact with a clear political message. The writer was a liberal who wanted the old Tsarist government over with, but feared that the masses might actually understand the necessity of taking back the property of the landlords and capitalists. Overall, his POV is very representative of the provisional government/the liberals at the time. Just like the tsar could not understand why the people were in revolt, so to the liberals in support of the propertied classes could not see why the people had chosen the Bolshevics
Soviet is just the russian word for council, this is more relevant for this video since it's from the times of the revolution
Always a treat to see and hear a new video, I love your voice and channel, How can I support you for more regular content ?
This was incredible thank you
Very well done! Very enlightening … and very frightening.
The death of nation, from a mighty tsarina to a slave.
Russian wasn't doing that great before the revolution, man. That's why the revolution happened.
I just love this channel! One of the gems of CZcams for sure
03:31
I don't know whose film this is, but that jarring machine gun editing is really amazing.
And, also for the channel to match it to the narration.
It may be from October by Sergei Eisenstein.
"No brutality should be allowed. Although, there's no revolution possible without terror...."
*Lenin shortly after the October Revolution*
Terror against the bourgeois, monarchs and landlords, not against the working class and peasantry, maybe actually read Lenin? Then again, that's a bit much to expect from westerners xD
@@Petey0707 and guess what happened? Terror on the working class and peasantry… maybe thinking is too much for you types.
@@Petey0707 Over 10 million lost their lives. Were they all bourgeoisie? They were executing religious people.
@@Petey0707 and the mencheviques and greens, but we don't talk about them
@@Petey0707 my great grandfather and his sons were killed because they were foreigners (Korean). You communists are all the same, can never see the pain you bring to others.
The first 60 seconds is exactly as it is today.
"Sooner or later we shall find a way out."
Narrator: "They did a lot, but find a way out they did not."
First nation in space. Sent a satellite into space to just do it. Single-handedly critically wounded the Nazi War Machines. It took 70 years of western interference to kill it. Hard to argue they didn't find a way out of monarchy.
@@andrewdickerson849 Singlehandedly critiically wounded the Nazi War Machines it helped create by allying to invade Poland, and also after the UK held them off for multiple years*.
One the lucky few nations that managed to conquer a massive amounts of territory but completely collapsed in less than a 100 years*
One of the many nations that turned monarchy into another form of monarchy: dictatorship*
They found a lot of things, but not a way out of monarchy, nor a way out of that mess. The current monarch goes under the name Putin.
Great narration. I can feel the confusion, excitement, anxiety and fear as Sorokin comes to realize the grandiosity of the event.
Joseph Conrad's book "Under Western Eyes" (a scathing rebuke of the naiveté of the Soviet revolution) mirrors this author's pessimistic account almost perfectly for most of the book.
Find it odd how people would welcome this today. They think they won’t find themselves staring at a gun barrel when their wishes come true.
The people back then didn’t want it, not in and of itself. It was something they were compelled to do because of the stagnant and incompetent power structures they dealt with.
@@notesscrotes4360 i said today
Given how degenerate our western society has become, can you really not see why some people would welcome revolution? Some things are more important than wealth & materialism, or even your own life. For me the hope for a better future is worth losing everything.
@@kw8831 nah, he’s probably white and well off
@@kw8831 someone during the October Revolution would rationalize by saying *exactly* what you just said
Much of his description of those comfortable, effeminate men pushing revolution sounds a lot like modern America.
It scares me how insane and evil people can be.
Self sufficiency is the cure.
Right? That government must have been super insane and evil to push people to do this. Long live the working class, the backbone of every nation. Down with the bourgeois who greedily horde the wealth created by the working people. If only the world saw MORE bloody revolution, we might have leaders who don't constantly take advantage of us for money.
Sometimes evil is required to destroy something worse.
@@elijahlees8655 Or sometimes a greater evil swallows a lesser one, as with this revolution. Russia may have slowly transitioned to be the equal of Germany or Britain or the U.S. yet this revolution doomed the country into eternal poverty and corruption. Russia is forever lost.
@@VargasJulio39 the revolution is what brought Russia anywhere close to the modern age. But the revolutions in Germany failed and Stalin made too many mistakes.
This was so Epic, thank you for sharing this intimate window of one of the most infamous events in history.
I love this channel thank you for your content. It's so interesting to hear how people saw the world from times long ago.
This is beautiful. Thank you brother. We must be ready when they come for us again ☦
Wonderful! Thank you!
Use of Eisenstein's Potemkin and October clips achieves intended narrative empathy as well as reverses the original production's pro-revolution message. Very well done, and excellent example of how film/video propaganda is all in the narrative and scene editing. In this regard have we seen some recent examples of the real world propaganda game running into the same thing Die Deutsche Wochenschau ran into about late 1944?
Note: I am not discounting Pitirim Sorokin's valuable testimony; only pointing out some other observables.
Clip/edit a film the right way & you can make anybody look like an angel (or the devil).
It’s very noticeable in modern WW2 documentaries where originally upbeat & patriotic clips of German soldiers marching are edited with ominous music to make sure everyone thinks “oh, these are the bad guys!!!”
What did Die Deutsche Wochenschau run into about late 1944? Can you please describe some details or tell me where to look. Thanks.
@@Kurtlane Die Deutsche Wochenschau ran head first into reality.
I rather doubt that most people are aware of Eisenstein's work in the way that you clearly are. Personally, as an art historian, I cringe at the reuse of Eisenstein's work in other contexts, but this is just the obsessiveness that my historical training has ground into me. ;) Your points about film editing and semiotics are accurate.
This Sorokin text is quite something.
Many of the children of the Decembrists we’re still alive. Old, quite old, alive the nonetheless. I wound how many of their grandchildren fought for the reds, and how many of them for the whites by then, and in the following five years that marked the civil war.
125 years later, and Russia is still miserable, and after 7 decades of Red Tsars, a White Tsar returns, to complete the rule of the centuries of old. Poverty is everywhere, serfs are everywhere, and a tiny aristocratic class, much smaller in numbers than that of Imperial times, and far less educated too. Nothing but scoundrels, thieves, philistines, and descendants of the riffraff enslaving their fellow riffraff.
9.3 million barrels of oil per day, bringing in billions of dollars everyday, and yet no end to misery insight. Nothing but an endless export of Slavic prostitutes, being trafficked by their own people. A seemingly never ending perpetual cycle of agony is bestowed upon Russia. One that might very well last to the end of days.
"Red Tsars" did not take Russia from a land of uneducated peasants to the first humans in space in a matter of mere decades.
As an American teacher in Istanbul, Turkey from 2013 to 2015 I met many Turkish people descended from White Russians who escaped the Bolchevik revolution in 1917 by emigrating to Turkey, many remarried to local Turks, or became Muslim, or stayed Russian Orthodox but thier children married and integrated into Turkish society.
As someone who has visited Istanbul on nine different occasions between May and November of 2017. I can attest to that statement. I too, have met Turks of Russian ancestry, whose grandparents or great grandparents were White Russian émigrés, who moved to Constantinople from Odessa in the early 1920s, decided to stay, rather than complete their trip to Paris, Berlin, or America. As far as I’ve been told. Their ancestors were far less wealthy, than those that were able to continue their travels to the Western World. Many took jobs as music or art teachers to children of the allied forces stationed in Constantinople. Especially those that arrived prior to 1922. It’s fascinating how dignified those people were, and how they made use of their skills and talents in music, art, and languages, to make a living. Rather than to simply prostitute themselves. A different breed of people, that’s for sure.
Not counting the millions of Circassians. All descendants of migrants escaping the Russian genocide of the early to mid 19th century.
Incidentally, one of them, a dear friend of mine, and a fellow millennial, was just messaging me over WhatsApp today, complaining about how rent has gone up, because of the many Ukrainian and Russian newcomers, who are USD rich, and how property prices have skyrocketed as well. Not to mention, how their son’s kindergarten fees have doubled or tripled, due to the influx of those newly arrived Ukrainians with so much dollars in their pockets.
The last paragraph of your comment hits very hard.
"but putin is based and not degenerate at all" lol.
An excellent reading. I was biting my nails at the end hoping for a happy ending. Very glad that Sorokin escaped to longer and better life
Thank you for this.
Fascinating. Hundred years and no matter where in the world. No matter what cultures governments fall in the same fashion.
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He needs more time raging about imaginary streamer tier lists.
Great vid. I love your work.
Again, excellent. Thank You
Dude, I love your channel! there is some really interesting material if you look into letters and accounts from orthodox christian saints and fathers of the Church. There is a book called The Apostolic Fathers who were the pupils of the apostles (St. Ignatious of Antioch, St. Clement, St. Polycarp of Smyrna) with their account before martyrdom, then, there are some interesting letters and diaries from saints before the fall of Constantinople and more modern saints during and after the revolution that are worth taking a look at (Pavel Florensky comes to mind).
Lets hope People don't twidt their panties over reading Letters of the Church fathers.
God bless ☦️
I would love to hear a reading of the letter Petrarch wrote of his climbing of Mont Ventoux.
I don’t think diaries are childish at all. I finding journaling to be the best way to clear my head, and often leads to insightful observations about myself and my world around me.
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Fascinating and illuminating!
Much we can learn from this man's testimony, and it may soon become quite relevant.
An outstanding source and a great video overall!
[Edit: you can ignore the following two sentences, the title was apparently fixed]
However, I have to say that the title is a bit misleading. Most of the video obviously describes the February Revolution of 1917 (which started in March according to the Gregorian calendar), only the final part being about the so-called "Great October Revolution", or the Bolshevik putsch, as I prefer to call it.
Anyway, I find it very timely, as Mike Dunkan is currently wrapping up his very extensive coverage of the Rusian Revolution(s) on his podcast, and with it the entire Revolutions podcast. I might be wrong but I think he did quote in it Sorokin's diary too.
Always good to find non violent ways to get along and to understand each other.
I had not heard of Sorokin but will look further...thanks for your video.
Thank you for sharing this man's story.
So sad to hear.
If only all of those people knew the monster that their revolution was going to create.
And in the end, Germany actually played them perfectly.
They actually did reinsert the bolshevik leaders into Russia, and it led to Russia's withdraw from the war in 1917.
Germany didn't have to beat Russia in the war, just let it destroy itself.
And this man had a terribly sad view of it all.
The revolution started as a monster, long live the Tsar.
Germany didn't reinsert Lenin, they just didn't stop him when he tried to sneak back in. And at this point the Russian Army was already broken, it's soldiers were fed up with being forced into suicidal charges by their incompetent commanders.
Poor Russia still looking for a way out 😥
You live in Spain? Would you ever consider doing a video on the Spanish Civil War?
A very interesting insight into a liberal during the midst of the Russian Revolution. Even though I disagree with many of his conclusions it is very interesting to see his perspective on these things.
First hand accounts are always the best accounts after all.
It's interesting to watch this video as a communist.
@@Shot5hells Yes as a Communist it is very interesting to see the perspective of the other side of the Revolution.
Massive cope calling a member of the socialist party a liberal
Quite interesting talking about the famous figures like Lenin and Trotsky suddenly just popping one day loaded with money and shaking everything up 🤔🤔
Pitirim Sorokin was able to emigrate to the USA and became Professor in Harward.
I'm quite glad that i missed all of this.
Same here.
We have our own in our own time
Germany supporting the repatriation of Lenin only for it to "domino" events into the red army ravaging Berlín, bears a resemble to the US aiding the taliban and having it come back in the form of 9/11. Called karma, butterfly effect, or anything else. It just comes to show that the enemy of your enemy can be more of a threat than a friend.
Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11
You can dislike Russians, but Russian thinkers of 19th and 20th century had great writing abilities for one
Russians I like they are like any other peoples. But what a sad state of affairs.😢
Western tankies should watch this.
What an amazing 24 hours to have been sick through.
100 years later and he is still hoping
🙏🙏🙏 Thank you!:-)💜
As Rabbi Steven Wise said:
Some call it Communism, I prefer to call it what it is, Judaism".
The American Bulletin May 05th 1935.
Most Communist countries weren't support of Israël
@@adrien3019 and most communist countries ostracize jews
Where chaos is invoked… chaos reigns
this was a good one
I have listened and read many an account of the revolution, and the various stages of the Soviet Union. Hearing of it as it was written firsthand however, paints a far more weighted, and granular image in mind. It gives me a taste of the fear they must have experienced watching society collapse around them.
Don't think it can't happen here in the US. Some would welcome this as we've seen lately.
It's because we are a weak and dying society
Americans worship their constitution so I doubt things will change. People can still change things by the ballot box within their states and that is preferable to violence to most people.
@@roostercogburn7129 I don't disagree.
@@catmonarchist8920 not to the ChristoFascists .
It sure can, though US is infinitely more likely to become a fascist dictatorship rather than a communist one. January 6th coup attempt didn't work out, but there will be others.
Certain excerpts from this diary remind me of what's going on today in the 🇺🇸.
That was an amazing story!! I really enjoy listening to your videos!! A++ and 👍👍 in my opinion! Your channel is the best!
That was a chilling account of the Revolution.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn writes:
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart…even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an uprooted small corner of evil.
Thanks to ideology the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing calculated on a scale in the millions.
Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth. Yet, I have not given up all hope that human beings and nations may be able, in spite of all, to learn from the experience of other people without having to go through it personally"
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
A mediocre fantasy novel
One of the best books I’ve ever read.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!” The Gulag Archipelego
One must understand this was written in the context of a member of the aristocracy who was losing their power and position were threatened and ultimately destroyed, this can be an issue when relying on primary sources, however, this channel actively states this, and I can respect it for this. But this was written from a particular perspective of an individual who was threatened by the revolution. This shows this by him stating a series of false statements like his odd claim that the nobility of France supported the revolution. An agrarian farmer as an example would have a much, much different perspective of the revolution, as would a soldier, or industrial worker. This must always be kept in mind while reading primary sources.
The czars were pretty bad too. Seems like they caused communism .
@@JohnSmith-nh2te fantasy?
Holding up the bread for a few days, waiting for the price to increase was what started the riots, but it was a powderkeg waiting to happen.
I like the connection to the French Revolution and the Chaos that came after!!!!