Workers loading bundles of the Bolshevik daily Pravda for distribution, following the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].

Members of the Red Guards in Moscow, following the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].

The Petrograd sailors who fired the first shots in the 1917 Russian Revolution [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].

A leaflet written by a young American socialist named Harvey O’Connor following the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Over 20,000 copies were distributed [Photo from Socialist Worker Archive].

Workers marching through the streets of St. Petersburg, during the 1905 Russian Revolution. The central banner reads ‘Proletarians of All Countries Unite’ [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].

[May Day 1917] Rallies by the Red Guards of Petrograd, in the run up for the October Revolution [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].

Distribution of newspapers on the first day of the session of the soviets in Moscow, following the outbreak of the Russian Revolution 1917 [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].

Click on the poster below to check out a MUST READ fascinating account by John Reed, written on November 23, 1918 in The Revolutionary Age…

Lenin, The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion…
The proletariat in a particular region… is divided, let us assume, into an advanced section of fairly class conscious Social Democrats [the name used by socialist groups in Russia], who are of course atheists, and rather backward workers…who believe in god, go to church, or are even [...]

Bolsheviks…