The Winter Revolution

The Winter Revolution (Euluska: Kiitany Kasjerin /kiː.tɑ.nʏ kɑ.ɧɛ.ɾin/ lit. 'Winter Rising') was a complex chain of social and political events in 252 C in Halcyon which culminated on 19th Luana 252 with an armed uprising. It led to civil war for a few months, then peace as the Communist state of Halcyon was established.
== Overview ==
The causes of the Winter Revolution were exacerbated by the feverish fascism of the city's political culture, the attempted genocide of mages, the poor conditions for industrial and agricultural workers, coupled with the significant wealth disparity and class divides, the rise of intellectualism, and mass civil unrest. It reached a breaking point when Queen Volterra I died, and the ensuing power vacuum and very weak successive king were capitalised upon by the Lionheart revolutionaries. On 19th Luana 252, a bombing and ensuing massacre of peasants at a hanging led to rioting in the affluent residential districts and the central industrial boroughs. Revolutionaries headed by Tamerlane led an armed uprising and stormed the Mirror Palace, having been allowed in by the spymaster Zenya Fortalesku. Zenya, once a staunch fascist, had been berated by the King days earlier, and had defected because of a promise of power among the communists. The revolutionaries convinced the four ministers and some nobles to join their cause. They took the king prisoner, brought them to an abandoned goldmine, and executed them by firing squad. 
== Notable Participants ==
* The Wildecards
* Tamerlane of the Lionhearts
* Prime Minister Tahlia Kerenka
* Vasilya Innëvov, Minister of Labor & Agriculture
* Renya Eleutheria, Minister of Enlightenment
* Vertika Lantsov, Advocate of the Peasant Collectives
* Zenya Fortalesku, Chief Spymaster
* General Miko d'Oradova
* The 9th Jackboot Beaters (incl. Mace, Aztën, Lt Kanon)
== Ideologies of the Lionhearts ==
The Lionhearts (Lyvretniks) were the revolutionary group who staged the violent overthrow of Halcyian fasco-capitalist society. They believed in an interesting and slightly unique form of communism. Their goals were as follows:
* A classless society
* One without private property
* One where the government does not own any of the means of production
* One where the government protects, but does not control, the people
* A strong state to protect itself from threat of invasion or subjugation
* Led by a 'vanguard' of revolutionaries to ease the transition into a people's republic
* This all brought about by violent overthrow of the old regime
== Ensuing Civil War ==
The uprising was followed by a period of civil war in Halcyon. Monarchist right-wing loyalists fought against the revolutionaries and workers' armies. Some hold-outs of loyalist guards led by generals like Miko d'Oradova outlasted for weeks. The monarchists fought fiercely. Some foreign powers got involved - the Vortics funded the monarchists, but eventually after a period of a few months, the communist revolution prevailed. Many Halcyians - the rich and powerful who had been spared - fled to the Vortic Isles or Datria. The end of the war signalled the beginning of the CPRFH.
== The Proletarian Vanguard of Halcyon ==
The Proletarian Vanguard of Halcyon was the ensuing revolutionary government of Halcyon, meant to ease the transition between fasco-capitalism and a communist utopic society. It replaced both the Monarchy and the Elected Ministry of Collapse-era Halcyon. On it sat the lead revolutionaries and some of the ex-Worker's Party of Halcyon ministers who had defected. It was disbanded after the end of the civil war into the Commissars of the Proletariat.
== The Communist Peoples' Republic of Free Halcyon ==
The Communist Peoples' Republic of Free Halcyon, or CPRFH was the name of the communist ensuing state of Halcyon that prevailed.
Its government was known as the Commissars of the Proletariat, which were a group of commissars who organised and oversaw the people without controlling them. They focused on representation of all, following the age-old adage 'to each according to their need, from each according to their ability'.
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