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From October to Brest-Litovsk

Leon Trotsky

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From October to Brest-Litovsk | Leon Trotsky

From October to Brest-Litovsk

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This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany on 3rd March 1918 which took Russia out of the First World War. The treaty exacted heavy losses for Russia in terms of annexations of land and financial indemnities to Germany. In this extended essay, Trotsky argues the reasons as to why he decided to sign what appears to be a disastrous agreement for Russia.
ile taking their exercise in the prison-yard, they would always ask me what all this meant and how it would end. I comforted them with the hope of our ultimate victory.

Toward the end of August occurred the revolt of Korniloff; this was the immediate result of the mobilization of the counter-revolutionary forces to which a forceful impulse had been imparted by the attack of July 18th. At the celebrated Moscow Congress, which took place in the middle of August, Kerensky attempted to take a middle ground between the propertied elements and the democracy of the small bourgeoisie. The Maximalists were on the whole considered as standing beyond the bounds of the "legal." Kerensky threatened them with blood and iron, which met with vehement applause from the propertied half of the gathering, and treacherous silence on the part of the bourgeois democracy. But the hysterical outcries and threats of Kerensky did not satisfy the chiefs of the counter-revolutionary interests. They had only too clearly observed the revolutionary tide flooding every portion of the country, among the working class, in the villages, in the army; and they considered it imperative to adopt without any delay the most extreme measures to curb the masses. After reaching an understanding with the property-owning bourgeoisie—who saw in him their hero—Korniloff took it upon himself to accomplish this hazardous task. Kerensky, Savinkoff, Filonenko and other Socialist-Revolutionists of the government or semi-government class participated in this conspiracy, but each and every one of them at a certain stage of the altering circumstances betrayed Korniloff, for they knew that in the case of his defeat, they would turn out to have been on the wrong side of the fence. We lived through the events connected with Korniloff, while we were in jail, and followed them in the newspapers; the unhindered delivery of newspapers was the only important respect in which the jails of Kerensky

Alicia 11/20/2020
Excellent!
James 08/01/2017
Great book depicting the roles of the army, workers, peasants and party in the bloodless revolution. Seeds planted by the bourgeoisie for the civil war are planted for further class warfare.
Nick 07/13/2016
Pretty interesting. A view on the Russian Revolution which you don't normally hear. Its been a while since I engaged with this material though so I cant really critically evaluate it. All I can really say is that its a good glimpse into how at least one sect of Communism sees revolutionary activity,
Andrea 11/03/2012
I found this quite interesting. It's the first time I've read about the Bolshevik Revolution from their perspective. That's hardly surprising given the West's antagonism towards Communism. I'm not sure I'd be interested in reading more about it, though, as it's not a part of history that particularl
Thom 06/11/2012
From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Trotsky clears up some common misconceptions of the Russian Revolution. Many revolutions by their mere conceptions cause and nurture chaos and the Russian Peoples Revolt against Tsar Nickolas II is a prime example of this. From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon T
Jape 07/14/2009
This is a good brief description of the fist proletarian revolution in human history and its immediate challenges. It's not series of sequential events it's an historical examination unfolding social contradictions and the class forces that these contradictions set in motion. Obviously Trotsky's thr

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