Russian Workers in '17 before October called for Censorship

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[FONT=Verdana]I have been reading Orlando Figes & Boris Kolonitskii - Interpreting the Russian Revolution

I cant be botherd to type out the whole paragraphs from the book so i will just paste my notes i been making with few little changes:[/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana]Example of the Slutskii Soviet demanding, in the same resolution, the suppression of counter-revolutionary press but the restoration of the free press[FONT=&quot][1][/FONT][/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana]A demand from workers in a Petrograd factory called for ‘socialist newspapers, regardless of party, be circulated freely and that no arrests be made’, meanwhile also calling for ‘decisive measures to close all the counter-revolutionary newspapers of the hatefull and dirty bourgeoisie”[FONT=&quot][2][/FONT][/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana]Similar examples from the Min’iarskii Soviet and Sobinsk Factory Soviet, the former trying to use their influence among the Postal workers to try and stop the delivary of bourgeois papers and later calling for the halt of bourgeois paper imports, with subscribers to receive them only after one month has passed*[FONT=&quot][3][/FONT]


[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][FONT=&quot]The authors claim: “Here one can see the emotional basis of the Bolshevik Decree on the Press”, [/FONT][/FONT]

*this one made me laugh "you can read your bourgeois news, but only when it is a month old"


[FONT=&quot][1][/FONT] Orlando Figes & Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution, Yale Univeristy Press, (New Delhi, 1999) pg. 180

[FONT=&quot][2][/FONT] Orlando Figes & Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution, Yale Univeristy Press, (New Delhi, 1999) pg. 180

[FONT=&quot][3][/FONT] Orlando Figes & Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution, Yale Univeristy Press, (New Delhi, 1999) pg. 180-1




So what are peoples views on this? What about those who claim the Bolsheviks were anti-working class for their banning of newspapers etc?