Petersburg Soviet

Trotsky delivers his final courtroom defense after the 1905 rising

📅 1 October 1906

At the trial of the Petersburg Soviet, Trotsky used the dock to defend the council’s political legitimacy and the right to resist autocracy. The court sentenced him to internal exile and deprivation...

Trotsky writes on the 1905 Soviet as a new political form

📅 1 June 1907

In essays later collected with his account of 1905, Trotsky interpreted the workers’ council as an institution that could unite strike coordination and political authority. This was his...