Leon Trotsky: The History of the Russian Revolution

Translated by Max Eastman, 1932
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 8083994
ISBN 0913460834

Transcribed for the World Wide Web by John Gowland (Australia), Alphanos Pangas (Greece) and David Walters (United States), 1997 through 2000

Converted to eBook format by Kollektiv Yakov Perelman in 2013, proofed and reset by Pablo Stern (Britain) in 2017

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VOLUME ONE
The Overthrow of Tzarism

• Preface
• Peculiarities of Russia’s Development
• Tzarist Russia in the War
• The proletariat and the Peasantry
• The Tzar and Tzarina
• The Idea of a Palace Revolution
• The Death Agony of the Monarchy
• Five Days
• Who Led the February Insurrection?
• The Paradox of the February Revolution
• The New Power
• Dual Power
• The Executive Committee
• The Army and the War
• The Ruling Group and the War
• The Bolsheviks and Lenin
• Rearming the Party
• The April Days
• The First Coalition
• The Offensive
• The Peasantry
• Shifts in the Masses
• The Soviet Congress and the June Demonstration
• Conclusion
• Chronological Table for Volume One
  
• APPENDIX I
• APPENDIX II
• APPENDIX III

VOLUME TWO
The Attempted Counter-Revolution

• Introduction to Volumes Two and Three
• The July Days: Preparation and Beginning
• The July Days: Culmination and Rout
• Could the Bolsheviks Have Seized the Power
• The Month of the Great Slander
• The Counter-Revolution Lifts Its Head
• Kerensky and Kornilov
• The State Conference in Moscow
• Kerensky’s Plot
• Kornilov’s Insurrection
• The Bourgeoisie Measures Strength with the Democracy
• The Masses Under Attack
• The Rising Tide
• The Bolsheviks and the Soviets
• The Last Coalition

VOLUME THREE
The Triumph Of The Soviets

• The Peasantry Before October
• The Problem of Nationalities
• Withdrawal from the Pre-Parliament and Struggle for the Soviet Congress
• The Military-Revolutionary Committee
• Lenin Summons to Insurrection
• The Art of Insurrection
• The Conquest of the Capital
• The Capture of the Winter Palace
• The October Insurrection
• The Congress of the Soviet Dictatorship
• Conclusion
  Appendix I: Some Legends of the Bureaucracy
  Appendix II: Socialism in a Separate Country
  Appendix III: Historic References on the Theory of Permanent Revolution

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