Who Is Sukhanov: An Important Part Of The Bolshevik Revolution?

the masses without degrading them as much as writers like Pipes who completely disregard them as being an influential part of the revolution. It also bothers me that Sukhanov, being an editor and writer in a newspaper writes his memoir like an acedemic documant. Obviously this was made for his fellow intelligenca, so they could look back on the Revolution and see his importants. However I am the kind of person who likes things that are accessible to people in all walks of life. So a lot of his long-winded descriptions were just unnessisary in my eyes. Also a lot of times I had trouble understanding whether he thought that the revolution being driven by the masses was a good thing or not. Sometimes he seemed to think the same way as the Bolsheviks, in that the masses were incapable of ruling themselves because they did not understand Marxist ideology. While other times Sukhanov states how he was against the Bolsheviks because they believed in an elite ruling party, while he believed that the populus should be involved in self …show more content…
I think this can be attributed to Sukhanov does not think that the Russian people at the time of the 1917 revolutions was educated enough to rule themselves, however throughout the memiori he does advocate that the educating of the populace should be the new goverments first