What October Means To Me - Caleb Maupin

Voice Of The Revolution Radio

For my final interview in the series, journalist Caleb Maupin shares his ideas about the October Revolution, the Soviet Union, 'not-Capitalism' and much else! Caleb's points: *October was " a rare moment in history", "an anomaly" where the Bolsheviks were able to become the ruling party, which changed world history *"I don't think anyone in October 1917 knew what was going to happen" *The actions of the Bolsheviks in October and after split the political Left; some forces on the Left denounced it after-the-fact *In October, it was not clear at all what Soviet power and the Revolution would proceed in *While they are romanticized in Soviet Historiography, "these were bad times", with hardship, famine, invasion, "some of the hardest times in Russian history"