#OTD The Petrograd Soviet votes no-confidence in its Menshevik/SR executive, and in the coalition government, by 519 to 414 with 67 abstentions. The Soviet elects a new executive led by Bolsheviks, Left SRs and Internationalist-Mensheviks.
The millions dying was not necessary (and was one of Mao's main mistakes!) but the purging of the landlords, anti-corruption campaigns, establishment of an industrial base and basic administration, etc. are all things that happened due to Mao that the KMT would not/could not do.
I'm not a china supporter or a maoist or anything, but from a political, structural, or economic perspective, it would have been impossible for reform and opening up to do what it did without the maoist era happening first.
#OTD Baltic Fleet sailors demand an immediate armistice, the transfer of land to peasant committees, and workers’ control of production. The Kiev Soviet of workers’ deputies votes 130 to 66 in favour of a soviet government. Similar resolutions pass in other industrial centres.
“I stood before it, and the beast looked at me; tears were running down my face—they were his tears. No one can flinch more painfully on behalf of a beloved brother than I did in my helplessness over this mute suffering.” -Rosa Luxemburg
Pre-1917 Bolshevik Party was extremely diverse and very decentralized but this has been completely forgotten because for some reason many think it succeeded due to being extremely centralized with Lenin being the Big Boss™ which isn't what happened at all