[PJ-Comix]

The Decembrists were a revolt by Czarist officers long before the Bolshevik Revolution. It took place around 1825.

[Billthedrill]

Thanks - I did actually know that. They aren’t the first of a long line of Russian revolutionaries but are by far the most romantic, glorified by old Herzen while Nicholas trembled in his castle. Marx was referring to them when he said “revolutions are the locomotives of history.”