<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
From Trotsky's <i>History of the Russian Revolution</i>, vol. 1
"The Overthrow of Tzarism," ch. 7 "Five Days" (February 23-27,
1917):<br>
<br>
Throughout the entire day, crowds of people poured from one part of
the city to another. They were persistently dispelled by the police,
stopped and crowded back by cavalry detachments and occasionally by
infantry. Along with shouts of “Down with the police!” was heard
oftener and oftener a “Hurrah!” addressed to the Cossacks. That was
significant. Toward the police the crowd showed ferocious hatred.
They routed the mounted police with whistles, stones, and pieces of
ice. In a totally different way the workers approached the soldiers.
Around the barracks, sentinels, patrols and lines of soldiers stood
groups of working men and women exchanging friendly words with the
army men. This was a new stage, due to the growth of the strike and
the personal meeting of the worker with the army. Such a stage is
inevitable in every revolution. But it always seems new, and does in
fact occur differently every time: those who have read and written
about it do not recognise the thing when they see it. <i><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/ch07.htm"><http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1930/hrr/ch07.htm></a></i><br>
<br>
On 2/3/11 5:46 PM, Morton K. Brussel wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> Excruciating reports today of
what is happening in Egypt to quell<br>
> the anti Mubarak demonstrations. The military there is taking<br>
> charge, conniving with the help of its mentors in D.C. Worse
than<br>
> ominous. Here's Blum's reflections on U.S. policy. --mkb<br>
> <br>
> Begin forwarded message:<br>
> <br>
>> *From: *BBlum6@aol.com <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:BBlum6@aol.com"><mailto:BBlum6@aol.com></a>
*Date: *February 3, <br>
>> 2011 3:57:04 PM CST *To: *bblum6@aol.com
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bblum6@aol.com"><mailto:bblum6@aol.com></a> <br>
>> *Subject: **Anti-Empire Report, February 3, 2011 *<br>
>> <br>
>> Anti-Empire Report, February 3, 2011<br>
>> <br>
>> <br>
>> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.killinghope.org/bblum6/aer90.html">http://www.killinghope.org/bblum6/aer90.html</a></span><br>
</body>
</html>