To the 60th anniversary of Great October The CPSU, as a party of scientific communism, has always based its activities on an accurate account of the objective correlation of class forces and the specific features of each historical period. "We Bolsheviks," Lenin emphasized, " have always tried to be faithful to this demand, which is absolutely obligatory from the point of view of any scientific justification of politics."1 Thanks to this, the activity of the CPSU, which was always strictly scientific in nature and expressed the deepest needs of social development, had great vitality. Having led the three revolutions in Russia, the Leninist party fully took into account the fundamental fact that they took place under new historical conditions, with a qualitatively different alignment of class forces than the revolutions that preceded them in the West. The new era of imperialism brought with it an enormous growth of militarism and a monstrous expansion of the apparatus of armed violence against the working masses. The arming of the bourgeoisie against the proletariat, Lenin emphasized in this connection, is one of the most important, fundamental, and most important facts of modern capitalist society. 2 From the new historical reality, Lenin and the Bolshevik party drew a cardinal conclusion that in the new era of imperialism, with a huge aggravation of primarily class and other contradictions, an unprecedented increase in the military-police state apparatus of violence in the hands of the ruling classes, revolutions can in most cases acquire the character of the most acute armed confrontation of opposing class forces. From the very beginning of their activity, the Bolsheviks clearly stated that the working class would, of course, prefer to peacefully take power into its own hands. But at the same time, according to Lenin, they considered it very likely, even most likely, that the bourgeoisie would not make a peaceful concession to the proletariat, but would resort at ... Read more