to all! to all! to all! peace to the world! power to the people! land to the peasants! factories to the workers! and sea water to the albatrosses of the revolution…
Slogans as an illustration of the social Mythology of nations are necessary.
No tyrant will ever admit that by overthrowing all the others, he worsens the living conditions of the people for two generations.. It's the ABC of tyranny...
When geniuses write about a certain “silence of the people”, they miss these details. Tyrants change each other... Palace cliques replace each other with very variable success..
The gray and the unprotected dream of peace and stability.
It was, it is. The period of the Great October Revolution is marked by an attempt to overthrow the pyramid of Power. The power of the little-explored essence of the social element. No one has written anything new about Power since Nicollo Macchiavelli. Unless, of course, the great cunning Talleyrand. Illiterate and smart....
God knows, perhaps caught in the arms of some socially stable matrix, any politician sinks into a morass. We consider Stalin a brilliant politician, but his mistakes far outweigh our poor understanding.
The king is on the throne, the color of the throne is tertiary. Absolute Power creates distorted Meanings.
We risk a certain rubrication according to known canons.
Thus, various centuries in the history of Italian art have names derived from the corresponding numerals:
Ducento- 1200-е. От итал. ducento(two hundred). International Gothic.
trecento - 1300-е. От итал. trecento(three hundred). Proto-Renaissance.
Quattrocento- 1400-е. От итал. quattrocento(four hundred). Early Renaissance, High Renaissance.
chinquecento- 1500-е. От итал. cinquecento(five hundred). The end of the High Renaissance, the Late Renaissance.
Let's try to follow the Italian patterns to build similarities in the Soviet periodization:
.period of three emperors Alexander II, Alexander III, Nicholas II
The Late Kingdom
. Kerensky, Trotsky, Lenin
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