(Some) Contemporary Russian views on the October Revolution

This is an article from an EU-sponsored website designed to rebut "fake news," in particular the examples supposedly encouraged by the Russian government, RT and what happened in 1917 EU vs Disinfo 10/03/2017

The site has its own agenda, which is always worth keeping in mind; having an agenda doesn't automatically mean bad reporting. EU vs Disinfo does have a definite Cold War vibe.

This one is about how "pro-Kremlin outlets," RT in particular, are covering the 100th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution: October 24-25 ("Old Style"), November 6-7 ("New Style"). Russia changed their calendar a couple of months later, aligning their calendar with Europe's.

The current conservative/authoritarian government of Vladimir Putin can't really celebrate the Bolshevik revolution in an unequivocal way. But, in this analysis, they don't want to entirely condemn it to historical Purgatory either.

The article describes an RT site comemmorating the 1917 events, referring to RT as "the Kremlin’s international propaganda flagship"

RT’s 1917 project impresses with skilfully made visual decorations, heavily inspired by Russian avant-garde art from around the time of the Revolution. Clearly, the project tries to appeal to Western audiences that appreciate the aesthetics of Soviet poster propaganda. The strong visual message in RT’s project is contrasted by a lack of positive or negative judgement of the political forces in the Russian Revolution: All the characters in RT’s gallery of 1917 personae appear as equally good and equally bad – even Joseph Stalin, whom RT jovially names @JoeStalin_1917 in the profile attributed to him in the project’s Twitter platform.

Their reference to the "the aesthetics of Soviet poster propaganda" seems to refer mainly to the homepage graphic. Although they do have a short video posted there showing what they identify as kids' drawings of the 1917 revolution as it was happening, #1917LIVE: Russian Revolution through the eyes of children RT YouTube Channel 06/08/2017:

Actually the site strikes me as fairly cheesy, some of it based on the idea of the events of 1917 being live-tweeted. I think that's what the EU site means by "a lack of positive or negative judgement of the political forces in the Russian Revolution." It's too cheesy for anything that would count as historical judgment.

The EU article also refers to the RT sites "museum-like, touristy poster exhibition," which I have not been able to locate. In fact, as of this writing, I haven't come across any exhibition of contemporary posters there, which I'd be curious to see.