The Horror and Greatness of October 1917

Abdurrahman Tatarsky

Abdurrahman Tatarsky argues that the Bolshevik Revolution was both a catastrophe and a historical necessity, destroying the old rotten order while ultimately restoring Russia-Eurasia in a new imperial form.

We cannot evaluate the October Revolution as either unambiguously positive or sharply negative. We acknowledge that it came at the cost of enormous s…