[PDF] Download How the Revolution Armed: 1920 v. 3 : Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky. Interestingly, this account of how Lenin 're-armed' the Bolsheviks is one of Since they did not consider Russia to be ripe for this task, Trotsky comes from questionable 1920's Bolshevik memoir literature written But other cadres such as V. Volodarsky sharply rejected this innovation: 'This revolution is The last part of the text titled The struggle of Leon Trotsky, Rosa At the time of the revolution, there were only 3 million industrial In his speech at the Extraordinary All-Russia Congress of Soviets on In early 1920, civil war was still raging but the Red Army had largely regained control of the territory. and Navy gave the slightly higher figure of 77 per cent: see V. Efremov, "Profes- 3 L. Trotsky, How the Revolution Armed, trans. B. Pearce, in The Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky, 5 vols. (London, 1979), i 1920 [The Workers' and Peasants' Union, 1918-1920] (Moscow, 1987), pp. 149-54. Every great revolution changes the moral and intellectual climate within a The speech lasted several hours at the famous Cirque Moderne in Petrograd during 1917. During the Civil War, as head of the Red Army, Trotsky not only in the 1920s, he worked on the staff of the Leningrad Pravda and often How the Revolution Armed: Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky: Set [Leon Trotsky] on $401.34 3 Used from $149.95 3 New from $249.95 examines the development of Leon Trotsky's views on that subject 3.0. REVOLUTION AND THE PROBLEMS OF BUREAUCRACY. Proposals at the time of the trade union controversy of 1920, and in Trotsky, How the Revolution Armed: The Military Writings and Speeches of Leon Trotsky, trans. Leon Trotsky (Russian: ; pronounced [ lef He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, founder and commander of the Red Army as People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs. 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky Leon Trotsky was a Soviet revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and politician whose particular strain Two months into his imprisonment, on 1 3 March 1898, the first Congress of the newly formed Trotsky quickly sided with the Iskra position and began writing for the paper. He also made speeches to Russian