The Lessons of October

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The Lessons of October (1937)
by Leon Trotsky, translated by Joseph Vanzler

written in 1924 as a preface to a volume of Trotsky’s writings from 1917. It was published in English in the Communist International’s news magazine Imprecorr in February of 1925. This translation was made by Joseph Vanzler, pseudonym John. G. Wright, and first published by Pioneer Publishers in 1937.

Leon Trotsky3076The Lessons of October1937Joseph Vanzler
  • We Must Study the October Revolution
  • The Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry —- in February and October
  • The Struggle Against War and Defensism
  • The April Conference
  • The July Days; the Kornilov Episode; the Democatic Conference and the Pre-Parliament
  • On the Eve of the October Revolution; the Aftermath
  • The October Insurrection and Soviet ‘Legality’
  • Again, on the Soviets and the Party in a Proletarian Revolution

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