On the other hand, although the Russian bourgeois revolution of presented no such 'brilliant' successes as at times fell to the lot of the Portuguese and Turkish revolutions, it was undoubtedly a 'real people's' revolution, since the mass of the people, the majority, the 'lowest social ranks,' crushed by oppression and exploitation, rose independently, since they put on the entire course of the revolution the impress of their demands, of their attempts to build in their own way a new society in place of the old society that was being destroyed.