The Post-Partisan Emporium

Thanks to ozarkmichael for writing this essay... Lenin's Disdain: The 1920 pamphlet on the relationship between Communists and the Proletariat.     by OzarkMichael In 1917 the bold Putilov factory workers (whose strike in 1905 spread throughout the nation and almost toppled the Tzar twelve years earlier) went on strike for better working and living conditions. This 1917 strike helped start the Russian revolution, the eventual result of which was Lenin and his Bolshevik party seizing power.   Two years later, in 1919, even though the Bolsheviks have gained power, the working conditions were worse instead of better for the Putilov workers. They did not have enough food rations, so once again the bold Putilov factory workers went on strike. They wanted the same rations as Bolshevik party members, or at least as good as Red Army soldiers. In response Lenin ordered a massacre of the workers by his newly formed pet agency, the Cheka, so 200 workers were shot without trial pour encourager