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Are there any Communists in the group? I'd love to hear what a true Bolshevik thinks of this account of the October Revolution.

Darcy Robinson This is a a true bolshevik thought of this account (end of debate):

With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reed’s …moreThis is a a true bolshevik thought of this account (end of debate):

With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reed’s book, Ten Days that Shook the World. Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the world. Here is a book which I should like to see published in millions of copies and translated into all languages. It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. These problems are widely discussed, but before one can accept or reject these ideas, he must understand the full significance of his decision. John Reed’s book will undoubtedly help to clear this question, which is the fundamental problem of the international labor movement.

N. LENIN.
End of 1919.(less)

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Surprising that Stalin doesn’t come up in this at all (although I have read he is apparently mentioned twice, I must have missed it). What was he doing during this time?

Geoff Taylor He did come up, in chapter 5, as being voted into / assigned some official role. In the Council of People’s Commissar’s, he got the role of “Chairman …moreHe did come up, in chapter 5, as being voted into / assigned some official role. In the Council of People’s Commissar’s, he got the role of “Chairman for Nationalities: I. V. Djougashvili (Stalin)”. Then in chapter 11, his name is at the bottom of a document. (I have an ebook version, so it’s easy to do a search.) More surprising, I’d say, is that Lenin and Trotsky really only make cameo appearances.(less)

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