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ivThe Lessons of October
Chapter 1We Must Study the OctoberRevolutionWe met with success in the October Revolution, but the October Revolutionhas met with little success in our press. Up to the present time we lack asingle work which gives a comprehensive picture of the October upheavaland puts the proper stress upon its most important political and organizationalaspects. Worse yet, even the available firsthand material — includingthe most important documents — directly pertaining to the various particularsof the preparation for the revolution, or the revolution itself remainsunpublished as yet. Numerous documents and considerable material havebeen issued bearing on the pre-October history of the revolution and thepre-October history of the party; we have also issued much material andmany documents relating to the post October period. But October itselfhas received far ]ess attention. Having achieved the revolution, we seem tohave concluded that we should never have to repeat it. It is as if we thoughtthat no immediate and direct benefit for the unpostponable tasks of futureconstructive work could be derived from the study of October; the actualconditions of the direct preparation for it; the actual accomplishment of it;and the work of consolidating it during the first few weeks.Such an approach — though it may be subconscious is, however, profoundlyerroneous, and is, moreover, narrow and nationalistic. We ourselves maynever have to repeat the experience of the October Revolution, but this doesnot at all imply that we have nothing to learn from that experience. We area part of the International, and the workers in all other countries are stillfaced with the solution of the problem of their own ”October.” Last yearwe had ample proof that the most advanced Communist parties of the Westhad not only failed to assimilate our October experience but were virtuallyignorant of the actual facts.1
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Page 21 and 22: Leon Trotsky 17And where should a w
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