Alright everybody, we're back with a new series! This is the first of several episodes that we will do on the Moscow Trials. For fuller context we decided to start our investigation with the beginnings of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Hope you enjoy! Sources --------------------------------------------------------------------- History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union(Bolshevik) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/ Trotsky -"Lenin spoke briefly......" https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/rsdlp/1903/ch22.htm Lenin- "From the Camp of the Stolypin "Labour" Party" https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1911/sep/14b.htm Lenin- "The Defeat of One's own Government in the Imperialist War" https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/jul/26.htm Lenin to A. Kollontai https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/feb/17ak.htm Stalin- "Trotskyism or Leninism?" https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/11_19.htm Gayle Lonergan- "Where was the Conscience of the Revolution?" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286394291_Where_Was_the_Conscience_of_the_Revolution_The_Military_Opposition_at_the_Eighth_Party_Congress_March_1919 Tony Cliff- "Opposition to Trotsky in the Red Army" https://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1990/trotsky2/07-opposition.html#p1 ☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭☭