The History of the Russian Revolution

It is 100 years since workers in Russian took power to run society in the collective interests of the majority.

Over the course of this year we will be publishing extracts from Leon Trotsky's book The History of the Russian Revolution to tell the story of the revolution. As they are published we will post the links to the extracts here.

• “The privilege of historic backwardness”
• The 1905 Prologue
• The revolution begins
• The paradox of February
• The origins of the Petrograd soviet