Why Do the Bourgeoisie Hate the Russian Revolution?
A decade ago, and seven years after the collapse of the USSR, we reached the eightieth anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917. You might have expected that, with its imperialist adversary gone, and the Cold War won, the ruling class in the West would have no reason to even notice it. On the contrary, a flood of publications attacking the October Revolution had already been prepared. Most acclaimed amongst these (especially by anarchists looking for any kind of critique of this proletarian event) was Orlando Figes A People’s Tragedy. Figes’ 900 page tome is a curious combination of tittle tattle [1] and tendentiousness, but is probably the best that a blatant bourgeois can come up with as historical scholarship. Figes, was at least an improvement on the Polish-born US Professor, Richard Pipes who as a member of the Freedom House, is still warning the neo-cons in Washington about the dark threats emanating from Russia. Even Figes has criticised him in reviews for his lies and exag
