Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
An outline of the key developments of 1917
Friday, 23 December 2016
The History of the Russian Revolution - a Summary
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"The serious reader will not want a treacherous impartiality ... but a scientific conscientiousness, which for its sympathies and an...
Section One - The Overthrow of Czarism
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References Numbered quotes are listed against each chapter of Volume One of Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution. Page numbers ref...
1) The Revolution and the Revolutionary Party
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"Without a guiding organisation the energy of the masses would dissipate like steam not enclosed in a piston-box. But nevertheless w...
2) The Law of Combined Development
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"In order to realise the Soviet state, there was required a drawing together and mutual penetration of two factors belonging to comp...
3) Three concepts of the Russian Revolution
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"No one in the Marxist camp, and least of all Lenin, had regarded the peasantry as a factor of socialist development. Without the ai...
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4) 1905-1917: Downturn and Revival, War and Revolution
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"The secret police department reports warned the government ministers that 'the most energetic and audacious element, ready for t...
5) The February Revolution: February 23rd – 27th 1917
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“ The 23rd of February was International Women's Day. It had not occurred to anyone that it might become the first day of the revolut...
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