The Bolsheviks played a huge part, but it’s important to remember that they didn’t make the revolution happen. The revolution happened, and when it came to the crunch, it was the Bolsheviks who had been much more hands-on with organizing the proletariat, meaning that 1) they could tell strikers to wait for it… and be listened to, and 2) they understood how highly ordinary people prioritized not being sent to die in a pointless imperialist war. Everyone else drank the imperialist Kool Aid eventually, until only the Bolsheviks had any credibility left

It doesn’t talk so much about how the revolution spread so much as how the Bolsheviks took the reins, but October by China Mieville is a very enjoyable read.

*whisky

*Scotch

You can’t see, but I’m doing my Lisa Nandy ‘towns’ face

well regulated militias :smuglord:

Yeah it would have to be grain or something, wouldn’t it? But then you give it back and… it’s still the lord’s grain, isn’t it 🤷

Ngl I find Robin Hood endlessly fascinating because there is a folk hero buried in there that actually slaps, but it’s so hard to make it work in a way that is historically convincing i.e. how does ‘rob from the rich, give to the poor’ work under feudalism? Disney squared the circle by making it a story about the evils of taxing peasants of their (checks notes)… gold coins, and the sad thing is that’s basically as close as anyone has come to getting it right. Maybe after the revolution we’ll get a decent Robin Hood adaptation idk