Uploaded October 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Topics discussed in this episode:
-International significance of the Russian Revolution
-Party discipline & democratic centralism
-1st and 2nd internationals & comintern
-Advanced vs backward masses
The text
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc
Audio book
youtube.com/watch?v=YKWYoRTyfdk
Finnish communist revolution
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTIfeavdM9cqWfLdZOl1IIo
The Leninist theory of the Communist Party
youtube.com/watch?v=kGcKOGpiNFk
Previous videos in the series
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vR4-29AGfaHOYJLnSt3ihF2
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Topics discussed in this episode:
-International significance of the Russian Revolution
-Party discipline & democratic centralism
-1st and 2nd internationals & comintern
-Advanced vs backward masses
The text
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc
Audio book
youtube.com/watch?v=YKWYoRTyfdk
Finnish communist revolution
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vTIfeavdM9cqWfLdZOl1IIo
The Leninist theory of the Communist Party
youtube.com/watch?v=kGcKOGpiNFk
Previous videos in the series
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vR4-29AGfaHOYJLnSt3ihF2
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My patreon
patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik
My discord
discord.gg/tsJTycv
My facebook
facebook.com/theFinnishBolshevik
My twitter
twitter.com/FinnBolshevik
My blog
mltheory.wordpress.com










![Did the Bolsheviks lose Soviet elections? Were the Bolsheviks popular? (Menshevism series ep. 5)
This series discusses the Menshevik-SR attempts to overthrow the Bolsheviks with the help of foreign imperialists. This video discusses the results of Soviet and workers conference elections in 1918-1919.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS62J0PHzUIazpDQSPP4HLJ
Playlist about fabricated sources:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vQ7hXUzhTwrGMHUlWSWyzKX
Script: [has some additional sources which werent shown in the video]
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/09/17/did-the-bolsheviks-lose-soviet-elections-were-the-bolsheviks-popular-debunking-v-brovkin-menshevik-attempt-to-overthrow-bolshevism-ep-5/
SOURCES:
The sources are all listed on my blog in the above link. Theres so many of them they dont fit in the video description.
Ive added links to the recommended sources. The other sources are anti-communists and other reactionaries (and obviously their works are under copyright).
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My Email
thefinnishbolshevik@gmail.com Did the Bolsheviks lose Soviet elections? Were the Bolsheviks popular? (Menshevism series ep. 5)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9sR6PH1pxd8/mqdefault.jpg)