The Rise of
Materialistic Scientism in Russia
©1995 T.D. Hall, Ph.D.
Abolition of SerfdomAbolition of Serfdom (1861): Alexander II was the “Lincoln” of Russia. In 1861, he abolished serfdom throughout the Empire, setting free more than 20 million men. Further, Alexander also provided a state system of loans whereby freed men were able to purchase small farms.
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution (1905-1917): Typically, the Russian czars were paternalistic, and intransigent when faced with opposition. Revolt broke out in 1905, inaugurated by a series of strikes. In an attempt to break a strike in St. Petersburg, the government killed more than 500 people, many of them women and children. The writing was on the palace wall ... the government of the czar would not be tolerated much longer. Like Louis XVI, Czar Nicholas attempted to maintain his regime while at the same time allowing for the expression of popular sentiment. The Czar permitted the existence of national assemblies.
Mutual accomodation ended on March 12, 1917, when Michael Rodzianko, president of the Duma (national assembly) telegraphed the Czar, “The hour has struck, the will of the peopel must prevail.” Within four days, Czar Nicholas, weakened by the First World War, abdicated. The ministers connected with the old regime were deposed, and a few were imprisoned. There was remarkably little loss of blood. Alexander Kerensky became head of the provisional republican government, July through November 1917. Kerensky attempted to continue the war, went to the front himself, but failed to stop the Russian retreat. His authority was then greatly diminished.
Bolshevik Revolution
The Bolshevik Revolution (November 1917): The name Bolsheviki, which means the majority, was adopted by the followers of Lenin in 1905, when they split from the Social Democratic party. The Bolsheviks were joined by radicals of the Peasants Revolutionary party, and the two combined to overthrow the provisional government and create a “soviet republic.” Lenin made separate peace with the Germans. Decrees were issued placing workmen in control of factories, private ownership of land was abolished, and mines, forests and waterways were taken over by the state. Marxism-Leninism became the official “scientific” basis of the world’s first state socialist government. Thus was born modern totalitarianism.
Stalinism
Stalinism (1924-1953): Lenin died in 1924, and his place was taken by one of the greatest mass-murderers in history--Joseph Stalin. “Stalin,” meaning “steel,” was an adopted name. Stalin was the personification of Leviathanism--he ruled by terror. He murdered indiscriminately. No one was safe. He was especially watchful for anyone who might challenge him, and as a result he practically destroyed the leadership of his military forces. Consequently, when the German nation reemerged under Hitler as the most powerful nation in Europe, Stalin was compelled to enter into a non-aggression pact. Stalin’s one positive claim to fame is that when Hitler turned on the Soviet Union, Stalin managed to rally a counter-offensive. Stalin, and the Russian winter, stopped the Germans. As a national hero, Stalin became even more murderous. It is believed that he was responsible for the death of more than 60 million people. The subject of Stalinization of the former Soviet Union is so painful, I find it difficult to go into detail. For those interested, I recommend a film called “Stalin” and the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, especially The Gulag Archipelago.
The "Cold War"
The Cold War (1945- 1990): What is called the “Cold War” began with an event that was cold only in the sense of ruthlessness--the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. The dropping of these bombs, an act which implicated the United States (for the first time, overtly) in the mass destruction of civilian populations, was meant (so we are informed these days) as a “warning” to the Russians. The Russians apparently got the message. Under Stalin and his successors, the Soviet Union emerged in a very short time as a monolithic militaristic empire. The net result of the Soviet Union’s long confrontattion with the “Free World” was collapse. The Soviet Union was not defeated by America, as a great many think. It was defeated by global socialism.
Editorial Comment on the Rise of Global Socialism
[Editor: Another aspect of this is that the Soviet Union, specially the Bolshevik Revolution was in great part funded from the United States, as was the buildup of Nazi Germany. Again, the only way to institute global socialism, was to create extreme forms of the types of socialism that they desired to eliminate. This is why both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were funded by the Eastern Establishment in the United States. The “Cold War” was just a sham for public consumption. Gorbachev, who has never renounced Marxism, was “imported” into the United States by the Reagan-Bush administrations, who had as their objective global socialism, in order to participate in the political effort to dismantle the national military capablity of the United States, and to assist, while at the taxpayer-funded “think tank” (Gorbachev Institute) at the Presidio in San Francisco, in the dissolution of United States national sovereignty. Note that our current president Clinton spent time in the Soviet Union. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand the current political program. The “Cold War” was a sham because nuclear war assured mutual destruction and a nuclear winter from which the planet would never recover, and secondly, as the work of Bruce Cathie has shown, nuclear devices will not work except at specific earth grid locations at specific times, thus a “willy nilly” nuclear exchange is not possible to achieve. The destruction of the United States could only be achieved by “communizing it,” while at the same time the destruction of the Soviet Union could only be achieved by “capitalizing” it. The end result is that global socialism takes control. Unfortunately, those who promote global socialism do not fully realize that it, too, is a system that cannot work--it can only promote the destruction of the human species. If an extreme of national socialism didn’t work (Nazi Germany), an extreme of international socialism didn’t work (Soviet Russia), what must by definition become an extreme (global socialism), cannot work. Only mutual aid, cooperation, and scientific holism will bring this planet into a new age and into a position to intermingle on an interplanetary scale.]