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...government which rose from the ashes of the old Tsarist empire, whose first leader was an anti-imperialist theoretician, and whose ostensible goal was the liberation of the whole world, come in the year 1968 to be a symbol of ruthless repression and flagrant imperialism...
LIKE OTHER imperial powers, Tsarist Russia was motivated by several factors as it expanded. Originally landlocked, Russia sought year-round ports with open access to trade routes. Mindful of the dangers of massive invasion after the Napoleonic conquest of Moscow, the Russians sought buffer states to protect their frontiers. They looked for foreign markets and economic spheres of interest in central Asia and Manchuria. Generally, their imperialism developed on the lines established by the other imperial powers...
When Lenin and the other Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, rather unexpectedly, in 1917, they renounced the imperialism which had marked the Tsarist regime. Viewing the war then raging as an imperialist conflict, they also renounced the preceding Provisional Government's participation in the war, a decision which cost them dearly when the treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended Russia's role in World War I. Lenin was a committed Marxist and he viewed backward Russia initially as only the first stepping stone in a march to world socialism which he expected would emerge quickly in the advanced countries...
...Inspector General. George Hamlin directs the Harvard Drama Club's production of Nicolai Gogol's 19th Century satire. A postal Inspector General travels incognito to investigate a provincial office where service has been shoddy. Gogol lashes the Tsarist beaurocracy--a good way to celebrate "four more years...
...Avrich points out, were scheming to turn the Kronstadt uprising to their own advantage. The rebels and the emigres had nothing in common, and Lenin and Trotsky know it; the sailors called for the realization of the "toilers republic," while the Whites stood for a bourgeois or even a Tsarist restoration, and all the dreaded forms of exploitation which that involved. The threat of the sailors was serious enough, but for the most part it was reformist in nature; the reactionaries would settle on nothing less than the final overthrow of Bolshevik rule...