This is a new translation of an abridged version of a speech delivered by Leon Trotsky at the Petrograd Soviet on May 26, 1917 (May 13 O.S.). It was originally published in Novaya Zhizn (New Life), No ...
As the detail of familiar objects under a microscope recasts preexisting impressions, Rabinowitch's week-by-week and, in places, day-by-day reconstruction of Bolshevik politics from the first to the ...
As Hasegawa notes in his compelling book, approaches to the history of Russia’s October Revolution of 1917 have evolved over time. Social history eventually supplanted political history, but then gave ...
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 255th installment in the series. After the surprising Italian victory during the Sixth Battle of the ...
This speech was delivered by Trotsky at an emergency session of the Petrograd Soviet dealing with attacks by the Provisional Government against the increasingly restive sailors at the Kronstadt naval ...
8 November 1917 The Maximalists have occupied the Central Telegraph Office, State Bank and Marie Palace Maximalist rising in Petrograd - Parliament building seized Petrograd, Wednesday Noon An armed ...
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The coup that didn't need an army
Most people picture a revolution as something loud and total: barricades, cannon fire, a city on the edge of collapse. The October Revolution of 1917 was not that. When the Bolsheviks seized power in ...
No nation had suffered more terribly than Czarist Russia as World War I entered its third year in 1917. It was not only the estimated 6,000,000 Russian dead and wounded in the trenches. At home, the ...
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