Our Revolution A compilation of key works by Leon Trotsky, written between 1904 and the end of April 1917, about the character and tasks of the Russian Revolution.
[Book] History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk was written at the Brest-Litovsk peace conference a mere few months after the Bolsheviks had come to power. It gives an excellent introduction to the history of the Russian Revolution.
The Fight Against Kaledin Written: the Decision—December 30, 1917 (January 12, 1918); the Addendum—January 1 (14), 1918.
Concerning the Expulsion from the Party of S. A. Lozovsky "A person who holds an important post in the trade union movement and is debauching that movement with shoddy bourgeois ideas..."
Resolution Of The Council Of People's Commissars On The Rada's Reply To The C.P.C. "The revolutionary movement of the Ukrainian working classes for the transfer of all power to the Soviets is assuming ever greater proportions in the Ukraine itself and holds out the prospect of an early victory over the Ukrainian bourgeoisie."
Fear Of The Collapse Of Tile Old And The Fight For Tile New "The strength of the proletariat and the peasantry allied to it grows with the resistance of the bourgeoisie and its retainers. As their enemies, the exploiters, step up their resistance, the exploited mature and gain in strength; they grow and learn and they cast out the “old Adam” of wage-slavery."
Draft Decree On Consumers’ Communes "Apart from the purchase and distribution of products, every consumers’ society shall engage in the sale of local products."
Plekhanov on Terror "When that Kerenskyof yours reintroduced capital punishment at the front, that was not terror, gentlemen, was it?"
The Irregular Actions of People’s Commissar for Justice I. Z. Steinberg and Member of the Board of the People’s Commissariat for Justice V. A. Karelin Draft Decision for C.P.C. on 'The Irregular Actions of People’s Commissar for Justice I. Z. Steinberg and Member of the Board of the People’s Commissariat for Justice V. A. Karelin'.
Resolution Of The Council Of People’s Commissars On Negotiations With The Rada "Only the Soviets of the Ukrainian poor peasants, workers and soldiers could set up a power in the Ukraine under which clashes between fraternal peoples would be impossible."
On The Opening Of The Constituent Assembly "The Council of People’s Commissars deems it necessary to declare that these are absolutely false rumours, deliberately and maliciously spread by the enemies of the Soviets of Peasants’, Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies."
Questions To Delegates To The Army Congress On The Demobilisation Of The Army "Should we at once undertake intensive agitation against the Germans’ annexationist policy and for a revolutionary war?"
Speech On The Nationalisation Of The Banks "The adoption of the decree is urgent, otherwise opposition and sabotage will ruin us."
Draft decree on the nationalisation of the banks and on measures necessary for its implementation "The workers and office employees of the nationalised enterprises must exert every effort and adopt extraordinary measures to improve the organisation of the work, strengthen discipline and raise the productivity of labour."
Speech At The Extraordinary All-Russia Congress Of Railwaymen "Only by joining efforts with you can we overcome the disorder and strengthen the power of the workers, soldiers and peasants. Soviet power has no other support than that of the broad working masses."
Staff Salaries in Government Offices Draft Decision for the C.P.C. onStaff Salaries in Government Offices, written December 13 (26), 1917.
How to Organise Competition? "We must fight against the old habit of regarding the measure of labour and the means of production from the point of view of the slave whose sole aim is to lighten the burden of labour or to obtain at least some little bit from the bourgeoisie."
