The Revolution also destroyed centuries of a people's church tradition
(the Russian Orthodox Church) by destroying churches, monasteries,
priceless works of art, etc. (Won't go into the whole discussion of the
Moscow Patriarchate & their supposed cooperation with the gov't vs. the
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA) and the renewal of the church
today.)

So as I read the original post re: The Revolution's impact on this
century, I had to agree - it was a formidable event!

VivianLea Stevens

John Perry wrote:
>
> In fact, the revolution did not free people from legal serfdom in Russia.
> Serfdom as a legal institution was abolished in the 1850's in Russia, by
> Czar Alexander III.  Now, while conditions for most former serfs did not
> change much between them and the October revolution, it is also true that
> conditions for those former serfs did not change much after the revolution
> either.  It is, for example, debatable whether Stalin treated the rural
> agricultural laborers better than they had been in the time of Alexander
> II.
>
> JLP