1905 (book)

1908 book by Leon Trotsky October 2023 1905 Leon Trotsky Russian Soviet Union Nonfiction Penguin Books (England) 1905 Anya Bostock (English) 1905 (Trotsky) 1922 edition.jpg Title page of second edition 1908 Print 1905 is a historical account of the First Russian Revolution written by Soviet leader, Leon Trotsky. The book surveyed a number of historical developments in Tsarist Russia such as the emergence of Russian capitalism, the relationship of social democracy with the political parties and the significance of the Soviet worker's deputies.Trotsky Leon 1905 15 January 2017 Haymarket Books 978-1-60846-736-5 7–15 https://books.google.com/books?id=By77DQAAQBAJ&q=trotsky+1905 enDavies David A. 1905. By Leon Trotsky. Translated by Anya Bostock. Studies in the Third World Books. New York: Random House, 1971. xxi, 488 pp. $15.00. Slavic Review December 1973 32 4 817–818 10.2307/2495516 2495516 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/1905-by-leon-trotsky-translated-by-anya-bostock-studies-in-the-third-world-books-new-york-random-house-1971-xxi-488-pp-1500/17379BDBAAD4190CCF643F3085A4F2E3 en 0037-6779 subscription Background 250x250px|left|thumb|The Soviet of Workers' Deputies of St. Petersburg in 1905, Trotsky in the center. The soviets were an early example of a workers council. Trotsky had assumed a central role in the 1905 revolution"A prolific writer and a spellbinding orator, he was a central figure in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the October Revolution of 1917, the organizer and leader of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War, the heir apparent to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, and the arch enemy and then vanquished foe of Joseph Stalin in the succession struggle after Lenin's death".Patenaude Betrand "Trotsky and Trotskyism" in The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume 1, World Revolution and Socialism in One Country 1917–1941 21 September 2017 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-21041-6 189 en and served as the Chairman of the Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Delegates in which he wrote several proclamations urging for improved economic conditions, political rights and the use of strike action against the Tsarist regime on behalf of workers.Thatcher Ian D. Trotsky 27 June 2005 Routledge 978-1-134-57214-4 1–264 https://books.google.com/books?id=cU3yFMLm1voC&dq=trotsky+1905+st+petersburg+soviet&pg=PT39 en Old Bolshevik Anatoly Lunacharsky viewed Trotsky as the best prepared among the Social-Democratic leaders during the 1905–07 revolution and stated that he "emerged from the revolution having acquired an enormous degree of popularity, whereas neither Lenin nor Martov had effectively gained any at all".Lunacharsky Anatoly Vasilievich Revolutionary Silhouettes 1968 Hill and Wang 61 https://books.google.com/books?id=ptRoAAAAMAAJ en In the aftermath of the forestalled revolution, the Tsarist police arrested him in December 1905.For Trotsky's activity in the St. Petersburg Soviet, see Gerald D. Suhr, 1905 in St. Petersburg: Labor, Society, and Revolution. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1989; pp. 338–345, 362–366, and 398–402 passim. After again escaping Tsarist Russia for continental Europe, for a decade Trotsky politically transitioned from supporting the Menshevik wing of the RSDLP to advocating for the unity of the warring factions in 1913 with the establishment of the Mezhraiontsy, the Interdistrict Organization of United Social Democrats.Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev, "Trotsky", in Edward Acton, Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev, and William G. Rosenberg (eds.), Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1997; p. 190. Historical evaluation The book has been commended for its historical value in chronicling the political developments and weight of social forces in the 1905 revolution.Wolfe Bertram D. Leon Trotsky as Historian Slavic Review 1961 20 3 495–502 10.2307/3000510 3000510 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3000510 subscription White James D. Leon Trotsky and Soviet Historiography of the Russian Revolution (1918–1931) Revolutionary Russia 3 July 2021 34 2 276–295 10.1080/09546545.2021.1983938 en free Historian, Ian Thatcher wrote that Trotsky established himself as a historian of the Russian Revolution with the book and the themes featured in 1905 would later be re-examined in his magnum opus, The History of the Russian Revolution.Heywood Anthony J. Smele Jonathan D. The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives 3 April 2013 Routledge 978-1-134-25329-6 241–243 https://books.google.com/books?id=uncZdrSj4WQC&q=1905+trotsky en Notwithstanding, other reviewers have noted that the book was not written to provide a balanced or definitive overview of the period as the focus of the book is centred on St.Petersburg and from the perspective of Trotsky on events. 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