[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. 1917 Leon Trotsky Books Publications Marxist Classics
A Turn in World Politics Written in January 1917, Lenin analyses the cynical imperialist manoeuvres behind World War One and puts forward the proletarian revolutionary alternative as the only way out of the impasse for the working class. 1917 Socialism and War V.I Lenin Imperialism The German Revolution German Revolution
To the Workers Who Support the Struggle Against the War and Against the Socialists Who Have Sided With Their Governments The international situation is becoming increasingly clear and increasingly menacing. Both belligerent coalitions have latterly revealed the imperialist nature of the war in a very striking way. The more assiduously the capitalist governments and the bourgeois and socialist pacifists spread their empty, lying pacifist phrases—the talk of a democratic peace, a peace without annexations, etc.—the sooner are they exposed. Germany is crushing several small nations under her iron heel with the very evident determination not to give up her booty except by exchanging part of it for enormous colonial possessions, and she is using hypocritical pacifist phrases as a cover for her readiness to conclude an immediate imperialist peace. 1917 Socialism and War V.I Lenin The German Revolution German Revolution
