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Results of the Russian Revolution

Posted on January 11, 2008
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October 30, 1905 St. Petersburg

Address to Social Democrats;

My friends, my brothers, my colleagues, I would like o begin today by thanking you all for granting me this great opportunity to come before you and speak today. It is a great honor.

What great advances the “cause” has made over the past few months. Elected government, freedom of speech, and a right to a trial to name just a few. These are steps in the right direction, and they have given us much hope, but Trotsky is right, the change has not yet been large enough. First of all the czar must be completely removed from power. Any power in his hands is in the hands of a man that could ruin us all.

The revolt has proved to be a useful tool in our fight for freedom, but this latest failure has embarrassed the entire party. I take partial blame; in fact a large portion of the blame may fall on my shoulders, but my brothers, it is far too large a load for me to bear myself. Perhaps if you all had have aided me by convincing the workers it would have worked. Perhaps if we all shouldered the load instead of expecting someone else to do it we would have been successful. So were must all take this as a lesson, but a costly on it is as 270 of our brothers were arrested. We must rise up against the czar to end his reign of evil. My brothers for to long we have been oppressed, and we have come to far to turn back now or settle for a compromise. We must persevere through trying times; push forward for the future of this great nation.

As I have said before lives will be sacrificed if need, but my brothers what honor is greater than dieing for ones country. Should we fail our lives will be wasted, as so many before us have. Russia must become a power; we must industrialize with the rest of the world. One day Russia was a great power and she must be restored to her former glory.

Times will not get better unless someone steps up and does something about things. It may get harder before it gets easier, but we’ll survive. We always do.

Thank you,

Alexander Denisei

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