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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Alaskaball@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

The game starts out with a quote from Kropotkin.

In general, people do not see events concretely, solidly. They think more in words than in clearly-imagined pictures, and they have absolutely no idea what a revolution is, – of those many millions of causes which have gone to give it its present form, – and they are therefore inclined to exaggerate the importance in the progress of the revolution of their personality and of that attitude which they, their friends and co-thinkers will take up in this enormous upheaval. And of course they are absolutely incapable of understanding how powerless is any individual, whatever his intelligence and experience, in this whirlpool of hundreds of thousands of forces which have been put into motion by the upheaval.

They do not understand that once such a great natural phenomenon has begun, such as an earthquake, or, rather, such as a typhoon, separate individuals are powerless to exercise any kind of influence on the course of events. A party perhaps can do something, – far less than is usually thought, – and on the surface of the oncoming waves, its influence may, perhaps, be very slightly noticeable. But separate small aggregations not forming a fairly large mass are undoubtedly powerless – their Powers are certainly nil.

  • Peter Kropotkin, The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Government, 1919

Game link below

https://red-autumn.itch.io/petrograd-1917

Also it seems like it runs fine on my phone browser so hey, time to do a revolution while on company time right?

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[-] macabrett2@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

You can't play the Bolsheviks—the game keeps them for a second playthrough—which is like making a Justice League game where you can't play Batman, but fine.

Very funny line from the article

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Can't be a winner until you learn why the losers lost loosingly.

[-] macabrett2@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

Also can't be a winner until you remember to do the October revolution haha

A game that teaches the important things in life.

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

I was sent to the dustbin of history! As I should have.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Bet you were a real Menshevik, bigly.

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Truly the most Menshevik. But now I can be the Bolshevik I've always dreamed of being.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Kautsky to Lenin pipeline confirmed

[-] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

spamton-expression It's time to be a Bolshevik!

[-] bubbalu@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

I played as the Mensheviks and saw that they did not have an agrarian policy even during a food shortage like wtf....

[-] Lalutacontinua@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Played as the SRs and changed part position to internationalist, why did they think supporting war against other proletariats would benefit their cause? Anyway my party got sent to Le dustbin of history because while trying to build ties with the bolsheviks I held out til last minute to cut ties with the provisional government

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 23 hours ago

Left SRs wanted a revolutionary war in the spirit of the French Revolution, right SRs got drunk on social chauvinism.

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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