đź“… 1 June 1905
During the 1905 Revolution Lenin debated what powers a revolutionary government should exercise and how socialists should relate to it. His argument was made amid strikes, mutinies, and popular...
đź“… 1 May 1912
Following strikes and protests, Lenin argued that a new revolutionary upsurge was developing. His interpretation connected shop-floor actions to political organization, but the movement’s scale and...
đź“… 1 February 1905
The defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese War and the January 1905 Bloody Sunday massacre helped unleash strikes, mutinies, and peasant unrest. Trotsky returned clandestinely and entered the...
đź“… 3 October 1908
Trotsky began publishing Pravda, seeking a mass readership among workers inside the Russian Empire. The paper’s title was later reused by Lenin’s separate Bolshevik newspaper; they were not the same...
