Rusia y 1917: una mirada cien años después

Vásquez Caro, José Camilo | 2017

One hundred years have passed since the Bolsheviks took over the Winter Palace in the city of Petrograd. It was a little disruptive, with little violence and carried out by a small group of insurgents. The taking of the Palace was a deeply symbolic event, because that building represented the highest authority of power of a decadent empire, and to take the building was, symbolically, to take power. While the October Revolution began as a discrete event, its echoes would be global and transcend all corners of the globe. The taking of the Winter Palace was an act that marked the end of an order, a before and an after, a world that would never be what it was. This historical event is one of the most controversial of the twentieth century. Many historians have argued that 1917 marked markedly the beginning of a new stage in world history and that there emerged a series of dynamics and tensions that would manifest throughout the century.