The Pathological Revolution-Literature Research

The Pathological Revolution-Literature Research  

At the outskirts of Buryatia, Anatoli was working in his fields hoping for someone to come up to him and tell him that everything was going to be alright. He was the lone bread earner for a family of five children and living a life of extreme hardships. The Soviet Union’s social class difference was taking its toll on the lower class families such as Anatoli’s himself. He worked day in day out hoping to earn something for his family and feed his children better. He was hearing the rumors that a change is around the corner.

There was hope, hope for him and the likes of him to get a shot at better life. The Bolsheviks brought with them a cloud of revolution, a slogan of change, a dawn of better day, dismantling the Soviet inequality. Their slogan was to bring equality in all the circles and classes of life. Anatoli’s life just moved clockwise, work all day long and he often came home empty handed, nothing to feed his children upon. Life wasn’t easy for him and his family.

Then came the clouds of revolution. The Bolsheviks started their propaganda. They started distributing pamphlets and books about the change and bring awareness to the commoners urging them to rise up and fight for their rights. They started their revolution from the villages and places of lower class areas. Buryatia was also visited by the members of the Bolshevik party to ignite the fire suppressed in them for years, the fire of inequality raging in them. They started preaching the revolution and how it is going to change the life of the commoners forever. When they visited Anatoli’s house, he asked them, “What will it bring to us?” and he got the answer, “it’ll change your lives forever.” Anatoli was happy that his life and that of his family was going to change forever.

Mikhail and Maria, the two eldest children of Anatoli were also visited by them and they preached how they were equal and how all human beings are created in the image of God. “The Soviets are running things against the verdict of the Holy Entity and the class difference is the complete opposite to the Divine Order.” Vladimir Lenin, the commander of the Bolshevik party made promises and gave hope to the common people of the dawn of a new day.

The books and pamphlets were spreading the propaganda and the revolution did come under the rule of Bolsheviks and the government shifted. They carried the slogan of equality and how commoners and soldiers would also be a part in making the government and the rights of people would not be suffocated.

But as time went on, the promises were just fading like thin ice, “there is no end to the misery of us poor.”said, Anatoli. “I have the weight of five children on my shoulders with no way of hard earning and the state isn’t helping us either.” The promises made to the people before the revolution seemed like just a hoax. Anatoli could not believe that it was all the same as it were before, nothing for the poor.

 At that moment, Anatoli realized that it was all false promises and that the poor had no right to live a life of equality. He went to work just like the old days, from day till night, he worked as hard as he could to earn something good. Anatoli was disappointed in the system, how it betrayed his trust and how it shattered his hopes of a better future. The revolution came and went and his life was all the same. Revolution had its repercussions, and the inflation resulting the inflation took its toll on Anatoli. He couldn’t afford to feed his children after Mikhail and Maria left to preach the revolution.

Anatoli died of hunger in his room and no one came to look for him. He was there, lifeless, on his bed, free from all the worries of life. It wasn’t a peaceful death by any means. All his hopes and dreams of change and revolution were dead. They were buried right there in his grave with him.

writer   Syed Sarmad