THE OVERTHROW OF CZARISM
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Date
1932
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Russian Soviet Government
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Tms is the first time the scientific history of a great event has
been wntten by a man who played a dominant part in it. It is the
first time a revolution was ever retraced and explained by one of
its leaders. As the author has chosen to write the book objectively,
speaking of himself in the third person, and not dwelling upon his
own acts or experiences except as they are recorded by others, it
seems fair to give the reader some preliminary glimpse of him and
the part he played.
In the Complete Works of Lenin, the first great publishing
enterprise undertaken by the Russian Soviet Government after the
revolution, there was included a brief biographical sketch of all the
important revolutionists mentioned by Lenin. This glossary was
prepared by the official historians of the Bolshevik Party under the
editorship of Kamenev, one of the leading members of its Central
Committee. The paragraph dealing with Leon Trotsky reads as
follows:
"L. D. Trotsky was born in 1881 (1879-Ed.). Organised
workmen's circles in Nikolaev, was exiled to Siberia in 1898,
soon escaped and going abroad collaborated on ls/era (the paper
edited by Lenin and others in London-Ed.). He attended the
Second Congress of the party as a delegate from the Siberian
Union. After the split in the Party, he joined the M:ensheviks.
Before the Revolution of 1905 Jie advanced bis own unique and
now especially celebrated theory of Permanent Revolution,
asserting thf t the bourgeois revolution of 1905 would pass over
directly into a Socialist revolution, which would prove the tJrst
of a series of national revolutions. He defended this theory in the
paper N achalo, the central organ of the M:enshevik faction, published
in Petersburg from November to December, 1905. After
the arrest of Khrystalev-Nosar, Trotsky was elected president of
the first Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies. Arrested together
with its executive committee on December 3, 1905, and
e:xiled for life to the penal colony at Obdersk, he escaped on
the way there and went abroad.
Keywords
L. D. Trotsky, THE OVERTHROW OF CZARISM