1st slide: Pin of the RSDLP(b) logo and Badge of the Petrograd Infantry Regiment of the Red Army.
2nd slide: Various pins related to the Russian Revolution and first year of soviet rule.
3rd slide: Historical documents including a first edition 'Pravda' (Truth) newspaper dated 1912, 'Krasnaya Gazeta' (Red Gazette) No. 4 newspaper dated 1919, A message from the Petrograd Soviet to workers in Germany and Austria announcing the victory of the February Revolution and the overthrow of the Russian Tsardom dated 1917, a 'Vlast Sovetov' (Power of the Soviets) No. 2 magazine dated 1919, and a replica October Revolution Petrograd MilRevCom Proclamation.
4th slide: RSFSR flag with Mosin-Nagant M1891 w/ bayonet in frame and a handmade red flag with gold tassel trim and red bow.
5th slide: Early RSFSR paper currency including 100 rubles, 250 rubles, 500 rubles, 1000 rubles, 5000 rubles, and 10000 rubles from 1919.
6th slide: Early RSFSR coins including 50 kopeks from 1922, two 1 chervonets coins in gold and silver from 1923, and two 1 ruble coins from 1920 and 1921.
7th slide: Replica of an early Order of the Red Banner badge with ribbon.
8th slide: My own early Soviet Red Guard "uniform" that I use for LARP and airsoft.
9th slide: Various books on the history of the Russian Revolutions and the soviets.
10th slide: Lead figurine of a Russian Revolutionary Sailor (maybe Kronstadt).
11th slide: Replica early Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) membership card.
Well, it is pretty easy to explain why it is do underrepresented. The items from that era are very rare and very expensive, meaning very few people can afford them, so few have them. Even I, someone with a very big collection, Don't have a lot. I also kinda hate how underrated it is but it's very expensive.
I was moreso talking about in general. Like a lot of self-proclaimed communist and socialist circles talk a lot about the USSR, China, Vietnam, Cuba, East Germany/Warsaw Pact, but I feel like the most enlightening topic that isn't talked about really at all at length or depth within these circles is the Russian Revolution and the establishment of soviet power and its decay over the course of the civil war. My inclusion of the books in my post isn't solely an inclusion to my collection but also recommendations of reading material for those who are interested in learning more about the revolutions in Russia and the rise and fall of the soviets.
Even less talk about the French commune, third internationale and the 1848 communist party.
I also have a couple items related to those but I didn't include them for the sake of keeping to the topic of the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
Of course, mb
Would love to see those!
Incredible post, just wow
It's indeed very interesting.
Quite ironik considering my pfp helpng with a red kit))) but should you put the red line on a papkha/ kubanka more than a ushanka?
Yeah the thing is the ushanka I got was actually cheaper than the papkhas I found online.
There's a reason for that. Stalin conducted campaign after campaign to falsify and eliminate that from Soviet and world consciousness. The leaders of that period, and not just Trotsky and his followers, were murdered, many of their writing were destroyed. I am sure, though I don't know the history, that medals, posters, etc must have suffered a similar fate. I have a reproduction of a Soviet 1924 Trotsky mug that ONE copy of survived (in the collection of leading a British Stalinist, as it turns out).
That is why collectors like David King were so important.
Civil War uniforms were the coolest. I love the pins.
I recommend The Fall of Berlin (1950) if you like Soviet films.
There's political reason for this, revolutionnary fervor was dangerous to the bureaucracy.
early and lately soviet history are blood, death, famine and horror. all the fuckers who appreciate it either are westerns who don't know a shit about horrors of "war communism" "ukrainisation" and "red terror" or slavic communists, who are hated. my ancestors lived in horror of obliteration just because they were ukrainians. this pins, medals and allat shit should be dumped in trash or represented in museums dedicated to the horrors of totalitarian, autocratic and fachist regimes. the well known "chekists" (чекисты, ЧК – чрезвычайная комиссия) and "kgbists" (кгбисты, КГБ – комитет государственной безопасности) were the instrument of burning to ashes the whole identification of nations imprisoned in USSR. so this history shouldn't be under-appreciated...it should be known and represented as the bloody tragedy of imprisoned nations
Didn't Lenin and most Bolsheviks push the idea of self-determination and actively supported the establishment of an independent Ukrainian state, insofar as it was also controlled by worker’s councils (soviets)? Granted the civil war was a bloody mess given the White Terror against anti-Russian separtists and suspected communists and the Red Terror done in response to the former and the suppression of peasant uprisings seeking to establish open-market trade, employ labor and essentially turn their land into a form of capital (which btw culminated in the "Tax in Kind" and later N.E.P. and the end of "war communism"), but I feel like in your comment you are conflating the actions of later CPSU bureaucrats with early, revolutionary-era Bolsheviks and completely ignoring crucial context of what happened during the civil war and after.
i know about NEP and etc, by that comment i meant that Ukraine was occupied by the russian communist state and there was no practical reason for it. conquer and destroy, thats it