Stolen YouTube comment:
Less fascinating than the politics of the “Russian revolution” were WHAT the revolutionaries were. Not even “who?” but WHAT?
They were one or more of these things:
-outsider
-Intellectual
-Physically small, short.
-From money, or from a diminished branch of a noble family.
-Alien to labor, and alien to the religion, nationality and race of the people they invaded.
-Overwhelmingly, but hardly entirely, semitic
-Cluster B personality disorder