Vladimir Putin is not keen on a big party to mark the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution
Most of the problems that the Bolshevik Revolution aimed to erase, particularly poverty, exploitation and inequality, are still with us
Information from the Kremlin is that President Vladimir Putin has not been at all enthusiastic about celebrating the centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. He would have preferred a "more evolutionary transformation". A Kremlin celebration could be seen as "validating insurrection", the last thing Putin wants to see happening to his prolonged rule. Speaking at Moscow’s Valdai Club he said: "Revolution is always the lack of accountability, one the one part of those who want to freeze in place an outdated order … and those who resort to civil conflict and destructive resistance in order to accelerate change…. Could we not have evolved by way of gradual and consistent forward movement rather than at the cost of destroying our statehood and ruthlessly fracturing millions of human lives?" So, celebrating the centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution promises to be a low-keyed affair in post-Soviet Russia. Earlier in his rule, Putin lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union after th...
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