Our Revolution : Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 PDF

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The world has not known us Russian revolutionists. The world has sympathized with us; the world abroad has given aid and comfort to our refugees; the world, at times, even admired us; yet the world has not known us.

Friends of freedom in Europe and America were keenly anxious to see the victory of our cause; they watched our successes and our defeats with breathless interest; yet they were concerned with material results.

Our views, our party affiliations, our factional divisions, our theoretical gropings, our ideological constructions, to us the leading lights in our revolutionary struggles, were foreign to the world.

All this was supposed to be an internal Russian affair.<br><br>The Revolution has now ceased to be an internal Russian affair.

It has become of world wide import. It has started to influence governments and peoples.