The Twelve (poem)
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The Twelve is a controversial long poem by Aleksandr Blok. Written early in 1918, the poem was one of the first poetic responses to the October Revolution of 1917.
12 & Skythes by A. Block
Red Guards (Russia)
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Red Guards were paramilitary volunteer formations for the "protection of the soviet power", as part of the Bolshevik Military Organizations. The Red Guards consisted primarily of urban workers and cos
The Twelve (poem)
…Blok. Written early in 1918, the poem was one of the first poetic responses to the October Revolution of 1917. The poem describes the march of twelve Red Guards (likened to the Twelve Apostles) through the streets of revolutionary Petrograd, with a fierce winter blizzard raging around them. The mood of the…
Red guard unit of the Vulkan factory in 1917