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The Bolshevik Revolution: A Century Of Death And Destruction

Investor's Business Daily•November 17, 2017

The Bolshevik Revolution: A Century Of Death And Destruction

Until a century ago, Karl Marx was an unpracticed intellectual, a prolix babbler whose thoughts remained an ideal rather than a reality. Then came the Bolshevik Revolution. On Nov. 7 (Oct. 25 in the old Russian calendar) of 1917 the Soviet Union was effectively born. This event may have been as momentous as the war that spawned the first communist state. Tens of millions of people died as communism transformed nations. We continue to live with the consequences of Marxism today. XAutoplay: On | OffLife was good in 1914. The industrial revolution delivered entire populations from immiserating poverty. Liberal currents affected even the great autocracies of Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia. The

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