Today in Labor History December 7, 1905: A General Strike of 150,000 workers began in Moscow, at the climax of the 1905 Russia Revolution. The strike escalated into a general uprising, with thousands of workers taking up arms against the imperial government. At least 400 workers died. The revolt was based in the apartment of writer, Maxim Gorky. Militants made bombs in his study and ate in his kitchen. On December 10, socialist revolutionaries bombed the headquarters of the Moscow Okhrana (secret police). By December 12, the rebels held six of the seven railway stations and many neighborhoods. On December 15, they assassinated the head of the Okhrana. However, the Imperial Guard brought in reinforcements on the 15th. They shelled the proletarian district of Presnia, home to 150,000 textile workers, and ultimately quashed the rebellion.

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"I can't listen to music too often. It affects my nerves." Did Lenin really say this? And if so, did he really mean it?
https://youtu.be/aRVXj5JcT3w
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"I can't listen to music too often. It affects my nerves." Did Lenin really say this? And if so, did he really mean it?
#lenin #russianrevolution #beethoven #appassionata #music #history #bolshevik #maximgorky
https://youtu.be/aRVXj5JcT3w?si=D523RRL3IAzdm-uB

"Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future."

~ MAXIM GORKY
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Today in Labor History December 7, 1905: A General Strike of 150,000 workers began in Moscow, at the climax of the 1905 Russia Revolution. The strike escalated into a general uprising, with thousands of workers taking up arms against the imperial government. At least 400 workers died. The revolt was based in the apartment of writer, Maxim Gorky. Militants made bombs in his study and ate in his kitchen. On December 10, socialist revolutionaries bombed the headquarters of the Moscow Okhrana (secret police). By December 12, the rebels held six of the seven railway stations and many neighborhoods. On December 15, they assassinated the head of the Okhrana. However, the Imperial Guard brought in reinforcements on the 15th. They shelled the proletarian district of Presnia, home to 150,000 textile workers, and ultimately quashed the rebellion.

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The "literary" Bolsheviks, in the circle of Maxim Gorky, are trying very hard. But in front of them I am sometimes lost. I don't believe somehow that they consciously longed for blind bloodshed, that they really didn't realise what they were saying.

#ZinaidaGippius 18 June 1917

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The writer Maxim Gorky avidly buys various vases and enamels from contemptible "bourgeoisie" who are dying of hunger. (At the old man E., an intellectual liberal, who is sick, Gorky himself came to see the remnants of Chinese porcelain. And how he bargained!). Gorky's apartment looks like a museum or an antique shop.

#ZinaidaGippius 1919

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Recently, (the writer Maxim Gorky) has started buying pornographic albums. But he doesn't understand anything in them. One antique librarian told me with innocent regret, "Gorky paid 10 thousand for one album, but it's not even worth five."

#ZinaidaGippius 1919

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No, people don't change, but they can evolve. And evolution is not always a pretty sight. Tolstoy moved closer to God in his later years, and it crushed him. Gorky had nothing left to write about after the revolution. Dos Passos became a capitalist with a barber's smile and died up in the mountains above me. Celine went crazy and forgot how to laugh.

#CharlesBukowski

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Maxim Gorky expresses a similar sentiment to what we have heard before: "If you're looking for God, go to the people and believe in what they believe." However, while people used to think that the nation was the bearer of God, Gorky believes that the people themselves are divine and believe in their own divinity.

#VyacheslavIvanov

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Dostoevsky wrote about one of his crazy characters that he lives in revenge on himself and others for serving what he did not believe in. He wrote this about himself, that is, he could say the same about himself.

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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin is delighted with the people, with the soldiers. When you ask him in alarm, what will happen next? He says: "Bourgeois republic!" And he adds: "Capitalist Republic." Everything that he perceives from Maxim Gorky is joyful to him. And the city of science, and the temples of art, and that the people will study, will begin to live well. All this is beautiful, all this is a bourgeois republic!

#MikhailPrishvin April 1917
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மனிதாபிமானம் என்பது அழுவதல்ல. போராடுவது. அது போர்க்குணம் மிக்கது - தோழர் மார்க்சிம் கார்க்கி(28 மார்ச் 1868 - 18 ஜூன் 1936)#Comrade #MaximGorky #Writer #Communist

உலகச் சிறப்புமிக்க உழைக்கும் வர்க்கத்தின் உன்னத காவியமாம் ‘தாய்’ நாவலை எழுதிய தோழர் மாக்சிம் கார்க்கியின் நினைவு தினம் இன்று. #Comrade #MaximGorky #Writer #Communist

What's your mother more like
That of #MaximGorky or #whistlers Or #Tagore
in case you haven't noticed I can't make such a pole for #girlfriend Too many shades, the poll explodes