Quotebut taking the word of a bitter, failed Russian screenwriter whose family was disenfranchised by the Bolsheviks is misguided, IMHO
Well, Im taking the word of the lectures at LMSU in Russia, and the word of my russian family that owned a farm until the revolution, so. You make it sound like it was a one sided fight, a little. There were two sides to that war.
But I am not arguing that being a serf sucked, of course it did. Only that it was much better than the Bolsheviks told the serfs it was. I am meandering as usual, but my main point is that the revolution was un-necessary, reform was coming anyway. The Bolsheviks knew that if the serfs were set free then they would loose all momentum. They wanted power not reform. The "ideals" of the revolution were nothing more than an opiate. They NEVER had any intention whatsoever for equality or liberty... I would argue that the ideals of communism are impossible under communism. And so would the loyalists at the time. But they could read, the revolutionaries for the most part could not.
But to be fair to you, this argument is ongoing in Russia too. I am not claiming that I am absolutely right and you are wrong. Just that I find the history does not mach the critique the Bolsheviks made... Or their German pay masters
Part of the conversation is what Russia would be like if the Tsar had lived but ceded some or most power as with the British monarchy. I believe that Russia would be a much better place with a living tie to their culture, than it has been or is now. But really all you need to know about the revolution is how the Romanov family died. He did not even want to be Tzar.