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 ...
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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 ...
Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd, by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Belknap/Harvard University Press, October 2017, 368 pages Around midnight on April 16, 1917, ...
This declaration by the Kronstadt Soviet was written by Trotsky after he met with the Kronstadt sailors in June to discuss how to respond to the many attacks by the Provisional Government and the ...
One hundred years ago today, on June 22 (June 9, according to the Julian calendar in use in Russia at the time), the Bolshevik Party circulated the first proclamation below, drafted by Joseph Stalin, ...
The dispatch from the Petrograd Soviet suggested the formation of local "Committees for the Salvation of the Revolution". The meeting assigned members to this Committee from its own ranks, expressing ...
One hundred years ago on March 14, 1917 (March 1 according to the Julian calendar then in use in Russia), the Social Democratic Interdistrict Committee (Mezhrayonka), supported by the Petersburg ...
Cut off, as I have been since the spring of 1918, from all my friends in England and Scotland, I must seem to you now as one who has returned from the Land of the Dead. And truly I feel, since my ...
Great cities rarely change their names. It is true, as the old song avers, that old New York was once New Amsterdam, but the change was precipitated by an English takeover of the Dutch colony. To keep ...
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