
10.74- The Great October Socialist Revolution
Revolutions
Bolsheviks and the Revolutionary Party
There was not really any active fighting on october 20, fourth and the political leaders in petrograd argued over how to resolve the crisis. Kerensky's boasting that he alone could save the revolution did not fill any one else with a great deal of confidence. The arguments of these right leaning men vik and srs was that launching an insurrection was disastrously premature and would invite fatal counter revolution. One menshevik leader said, they have no interest in the revolution. If the bolsheviks start anything, that will be the end of the revolution. But what we know is that trotsky has by now a well developed theory of permanent revolution, and no longer has
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