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From: tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Communism as historical tragedy
Message-ID: <11114@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 03:17:07 EST
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In article <554@qantel.UUCP> gabor@qantel.UUCP writes:
>In article <11069@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Tom Tedrick writes:
>
>> It seems absurd to me to think that the communists could have
>> overturned the Tsarist regime without some external factor
>> like a major war playing a role.
>
>It is embarrassing to have to point out such a well-known historical fact but:
>the Bolsheviks DID NOT overturn the Tsar. He was overthrown in an unplanned
>and uncontrolled series of bread riots, strikes and mutinies known as the
>February Revolution. Lenin found out about the Tsar's fall from the Swiss
>newspapers. It is more correct to say that the Bolsheviks hijacked the
>revolution that toppled the Tsar, somewhat like the mullahs' trick in Iran.
>
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>Gabor Fencsik           {ihnp4,dual,lll-crg,hplabs,intelca}!qantel!gabor

What you say is basically true but does not have much to do with my point.
I didn't say that the Bolsheviks overturned the Tsar. I said 
it seems absurd to think that they *COULD HAVE* overturned
the Tsar ... It is really frustrating to post articles on the net
when even intelligent people like you misread what I say.