Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed
- Pages
- about 423
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 7.8 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
In the spring and summer of 1917, All-Russian conventions of every sort
of organisation were held at Petrograd. There were national congresses
of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Soviets, Trade Unions,
Factory-Shop Committees, Army and Fleet Committees—besides every branch
of the military and naval service, Cooperatives, Nationalities, etc.
Each of these conventions elected a Central Committee, or a Central
Executive Committee, to guard its particular interests at the seat of
Government. As the Provisional Government grew weaker, these Central
Committees were forced to assume more and more administrative powers.
Union of Unions. During the Revolution of 1905, Professor Miliukov
and other Liberals established unions of professional men—doctors,
lawyers, physicians, etc. These were united under one central
organisation, the Union of Unions. In 1905 the Union of Unions
acted with the revolutionary democracy; in 1917, however, the Union of
Unions opposed the Bolshevik uprising, and united the Government
employees who went on strike against the authority of the Soviets.
Tsay-ee-kah. All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviets
of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. So called from the initials of its
name.
Vikzhel. All-Russian Central Committee of the Railway Workers’ Union.
So called from the initials of its name.
Red Guards. The armed factory workers of Russia. The Red Guards
were first formed during the Revolution of 1905, and sprang into
existence again in the days of March, 1917, when a force was needed to
keep order in the city. At that time they were armed, and all efforts
of the Provisional Government to disarm them were more or less
unsuccessful. At every great crisis in the Revolution the Red Guards
appeared on the streets, untrained and undisciplined, but full of
Revolutionary zeal.
White Guards. Bourgeois volunteers, who emerged in the last stages of
the Revolution, to defend private property from the Bolshevik attempt
to abolish it. A great many of them were University students.
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