From October to Brest-Litovsk
by Leon Trotsky
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Had the revolution developed more normally -- that is, under peaceful circumstances, as it had in 1912 -- the proletariat would always have held a dominant position, while the peasant masses would gradually have been taken in tow by the proletariat and drawn into the whirlpool of the revolution. But the war produced an altogether different succession of events. . . .
Chapters (28)
- TRANSLATOR'S NOTES:
- THE MIDDLE-CLASS INTELLECTUALS IN THE REVOLUTION
- THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE BOLSHEVIKI
- THE DRIVE OF JUNE 18TH
- THE JULY DAYS
- THE EVENTS FOLLOWING THE JULY DAYS
- THE CONFLICT WITH THE SOVIETS
- THE DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE
- INEVITABILITY OF THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER
- THE CONFLICT REGARDING THE PETROGRAD GARRISON
- THE DEMOCRATIC SOVIET AND "PRE-PARLIAMENT"
- THE S. R.'S AND MENSHEVIKS
- WITHDRAWING FROM THE PRE-PARLIAMENT. THE VOICE OF THE FRONT
- THE "PETROGRAD SOVIET DAY"
- THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION
- THE DECISIVE DAY
- THE FORMATION OF THE SOVIET OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIES
- THE FIRST DAYS OF THE NEW REGIME
- THE CADET UPRISING OF OCTOBER 29TH
- KERENSKY'S ADVANCE ON PETROGRAD
- COLLAPSE OF KERENSKY'S ATTEMPT
- INTERNAL FRICTION
- THE FATE OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
- THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY AND PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP
- PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
- ADDRESS OF THE PEOPLES COMMISSAR ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- THE SECOND WAR AND THE SIGNING OF PEACE
- CONCLUSION
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