Who said this?
Whatever a party could offer of courage, revolutionary far-sightedness and consistency in an historic hour, Lenin, Trotsky and all the other comrades have given in good measure. All the revolutionary honor and capacity which western Social-Democracy lacked was represented by the Bolsheviks. Their October uprising was not only the actual salvation of the Russian Revolution; it was also the salvation of the honor of international socialism.
Rosa Luxemburg
Kornilov
Outside of party congresses, this body was responsible for leading the Bolshevik Party.
Central Committee
In favor of: socialist revolution to topple the provisional government, led by the proletariat and supported by the masses of the poor peasantry.
Bolsheviks (All-Russian Communist Party)
This building served as a tarring yard, a nunnery, and an educational institution prior to serving as a headquarters for the Soviets.
Following our offensive at Galich, many units, thoroughly infected by the contemptible defeatist propaganda, not only refused to advance, but in some sectors even left their position though they were not pressed by the enemy. Taking advantage of this favorable opportunity, the Germans and Austrians, with small forces, broke our lines in southern Galicia, which may compel the entire southwest front to retreat in an easterly direction. This is dishonorable and heartbreaking. Today, at last, there has been a proclamation from the Provisional Government that the death penalty is in force in the theater of military operations for persons found guilty of treason. I trust that this measure may not be too late.
Tsar Nicholas II
Promoted the position of "neither war nor peace" with Germany at the negotiations of Brest-Litovsk.
Trotsky
This was an elected legislative body of representatives, dissolved in the course of the October Revolution.
Constituent Assembly
In favor of: land reform, peaceful transition to agrarian socialism by parliamentary means, in addition to continuing the war against Germany.
Socialist-Revolutionaries
Name of the battleship that provided artillery support during the storming of the winter palace.
Aurora
The Russian revolution has overthrown many a reputation. Its might lies, among other things, in the fact that it has not cringed before "celebrities," but has taken them into its service, or, if they refused to learn from it, has consigned them to oblivion. There is a whole string of such "celebrities" whom the revolution has rejected—Plekhanov, Kro-potkin, Breshkovskaya, Zasulich and all those old revolutionaries in general who are noteworthy only for being old. We fear that Gorky is envious of the laurels of these "pillars." We fear that Gorky feels a "mortal" urge to follow after them—into the museum of antiquities. Well, every man to his own fancy. . . . The revolution is not disposed either to pity or to bury its dead. . . .
Stalin
Called for the "extirpation" of the Bolshevik Party, "root and branch."
Kerensky
This was the leading body of the SR and Menshevik-led Soviets.
Central Executive Committee
In favor of: the establishment of a parliamentary-democratic Russian Republic, along the lines of existing capitalist Western European states.
Kadets (Constitutional Democratic Party)
What was Stalin's epithet for the Pre-Parliament?
Kornilov Abortion
I can say this for myself, that if I shall repent in my life of anything, it will not be of the fifteen years that I have been working under the leadership of Comrade Lenin, but of those few October day when I thought that Lenin was too much in a hurry, was forcing events, was committing a mistake, and that I would have to oppose him. It is now as clear as noonday that if the working class, under Lenin’s leadership, had not seized power in time, we should, a few weeks later, have had the dictatorship of the most ruthless, most unscrupulous bourgeois rascals. (Loud and continued applause). It is known now that it had been decided to massacre all of us by the time of the convening of the Constituent Assembly, and if the generals had had more soldiers at their disposal, they would have done so.
Zinoviev
Penned a letter to the Allied powers, pledging that Russia would continue to wage war against Germany.
Milyukov
Convened by the SR/Menshevik/Cadet coalition in the wake of a certain coup attempt, this body included representatives from socialist parties, soviets, trade unions, rural zemstvoes, commercial/industrial circles and military units.
Pre-Parliament
In favor of: restoring the power of the feudal landlords, as well as the Romanov monarchy.
Black Hundreds
This Austro-German Marxist was a leading figure in the "left" opposition to the treaty of Brest-Litovsk within the Bolshevik Party.
Karl Radek
Marx acknowledged the necessity for the parliament in modern politics, but just as much the necessity of pressure on the parliament from without. He who demands the supreme power be lodged in the parliament, but at the same time holds back the proletariat from all efforts to influence the parliament through methods corresponding to the nature of the proletariat as a class, he does not seriously desire the democratization of the (German) political system. His declarations of sympathy for the Russian revolution are consequently only hypocritical.
Karl Kautsky
Led the Ukrainian Central Rada in declaring independence from Russia.
Petliura
This body was convened by Alexander Kerensky in August 1917, gathering together forces supportive of the provisional government, including Chkeidze, Kornilov, Milyukov, and even the anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin.
Moscow State Conference
In favor of: pressuring the new Constituent Assembly as a Party of extreme opposition, along a path of gradual development toward socialism.
Mensheviks (All-Russian Social-Democratic Party)
Name of the SR-led militant group that staged a mutiny in Petrograd following the October Revolution.
Committee for the Salvation of the Fatherland