October Revolution

The October Revolution refers to the 1917 Bolshevik-led seizure of power in Russia (per the calendar then in use), which established the Soviet state. The term can also reappear metaphorically to describe comparably radical political or cultural upheavals (e.g., a jazz movement), though its primary historical meaning is the 1917 Russian revolution.

Claims that use this term

• The 1917 October Revolution taught Italian socialists two distinct lessons
• Structurless mass society made the October Revolution easy to win but hard to consolidate
• The jazz October Revolution was politically more radical than Stockhausen’s Originale.