By BO Staff Writer Vladimir Ilich Lenin (April 22, 1870 – January 21, 1924), is the father of the Great October Russian Revolution of 1917. Via the Bolshevik Party, he led the Russian people through the first successful socialist revolution in history. Lenin’s great contributions include his discourse on the transition of capitalism to monopoly …
By BO Staff Writer The following article was previously published on the Russia Beyond website: Imagine you’re a Bolshevik revolutionary in late 19th/ early 20th century Russian Empire. Your goal is to smash this “prison of nations,” to crush capitalism, to give land to the peasants, and factories to the workers. Your party is banned, …
By BO Staff Writer BLF celebrated the Great October Revolution in an overnight event in Pretoria reflecting on the lessons of its legacy. The following is an article that was published on 28 October 2017, just before the occassion on the BLF website and is reissued by BO. This year marks the 100th year of …
By Rebeca Toledo This article was originally published on the Telesur website. When the Russian Revolution triumphed in October 1917, most of the rest of the world was colonized by the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States. But under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, the revolution became the inspiration for …
By BO Staff Writer Last night, the radical black consciousness movement, Black First Land First (BLF), commemorated the Russian revolution with a night of talks, intellectual engagement and a film screening. The event was held at Mthubi The Hub in Hatfield in Pretoria, where a group of black artists have occupied a house and hold …
