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The impact of the Great October Revolution was naturally appreciated by the
progressive representatives of the arats, such as Sukhe-Bator, Choibalsan, Lossol,
Doksom, Dambadorj, Buyan-Nemekh and others.
Under their ledership the arats were organized politically for the first time.
The political organization – first revolutionary circles, and later the People`s
Party having ecievd the most friendly ideological and moral support from the
international communist and working class movement, was able despite the
country`s economic and cultural backwardness and the influence of the Lamaist
church, to organize the arats for an armed uprising and ensured the taking over
of political power by the people, by applying the methods and forms of struggle
of a proletarian revolution to the specific conditions of the country. Members of
the Central Committee of the People`s Revolutionary Party and the Provisional
Government, regiment and sub-unit commanders of the People`s Army and other
activists made a valuable contribution to the triumph of the revolution.
All the foregoing is quite analogous to the way in which progressive people
in many countries accepted the ideas of the 1917 Russian Socialist Revolution.
The famous revolutionary-democrat Sun-Yat-sen who was living fighting in the
period of a growing national-liberation movement of the Chinese people at the
beginning of the century, revisd his former views under the influence of the
October Revolution and put forward his Three People`s Principles, expressing
3 political fundamentals. This was a natural historical phenomenon. The Pre-
October periods in Russia were also full of similar examples of the influence of
advanced revolutionary ideas. There is no need to review numerous examples of
the mutual connection and influence of social revolutions in Holland in the XYI
century; in England in the XYII century and in France in the XYIII century. We
cannot deny the historical fact on the influence of the French revolution at the
end of the XYIII century, which predetermined the further development of new
progressive and bourgeois forms of organization in most countries of Europe:
Belggium, Germany, Italy and so on.
The same could be said about the great response to the Paris Commune of
1871 in the social mentality and political life of many European countries. In the
light of the repeated facts of history, the groundlessness of certain authors, who
regard this natural historical development as something imposed from outside of
as exported revolution is obvious. Our honourable colleague, professor Lattimore
was quite correct in stating that the Mongolian People’s Revolution was not
accomplished exclusively from outside, as some authors assume 766 .
The Mongolian Revolution, like other revolutions victorious in countries with
pre-capitalist relations, is a component part of the general world revolutionary
process. It completely confirms the foresight of the great thinker, V.L. Lenin on
the historical inevitability of the merging of socialist revolutions in the advanced
countries with the national liberation democratic movement in the colonial and
dependent countries.
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