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iiThe Lessons of OctoberTHE LESSONS OF OCTOBER WAS WRITTEN IN 1924 AS A PREFACE TO A VOLUME OFTROTSKY’S WRITINGS FROM 1917. IT WAS PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH IN THE COMMU-NIST INTERNATIONAL’S NEWS MAGAZINE IMPRECORR IN FEBRUARY OF 1925.THIS TRANSLATION WAS MADE BY JOHN. G. WRIGHT AND FIRST PUBLISHED BY PIONEERPUBLISHERS IN 1937.TRANSCRIBED FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB BY DAVID WALTERS IN 1996.THIS VERSION BY DIMITRI VERSTRAETEN IN 2002.
Contents1 We Must Study the October Revolution 12 ’The Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry’ inFebruary and October 73 The Struggle Against War and Defensism 154 The April Conference 215 The July Days, the Kornilov Episode, the Democratic Conferenceand the Pre-Parliament 276 On the Eve of the October Revolution : the Aftermath 357 The October Insurrection and Soviet ’Legality’ 478 Again, on the Soviets and the Party in a Proletarian Revolution 57iii
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