Our Revolution

“The Revolution has come!” Leon Trotsky exulted in January 1905, as a mass uprising overturned the careful calculations of Russia’s politicians. What happens when working people become a force no ruler can ignore?

In the early twentieth century, Russia’s autocracy faced strikes, revolt in the countryside and a growing workers’ movement. In these essays, written between 1904 and 1917, Trotsky argues that the working class—not timid liberals or cautious compromises—must lead the struggle for democracy, and asks what power it should claim once the old order falls. His vision reaches beyond Russia: a revolution, he insists, cannot be understood as a local affair alone. Can the workers unite a divided country and carry its upheaval further?

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