November Forever : Inspiring Legacy, Profound Lessons
NOVANEWS
— Dipankar Bhattacharya
(Based on talks on the Relevance of the November Revolution given in a couple of recent meetings in Dhaka and JNU)
It has been exactly one hundred years since the world witnessed the first socialist revolution under the leadership of Lenin and his comrades. As history would have it, the most direct and tangible outcome of that revolution which we had known in the name of the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, has ceased to exist. For some, the collapse and disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest proof of the failure and irrelevance of the November Revolution. It was destined to fail, doomed to collapse, they tell us.
Well, however much these people may like to cry themselves hoarse, the Red October was no stillborn revolution. ...