Bogdanov

Primary Sources

(1) In 1924 Anatoly Lunacharsky wrote an autobiography for The Granat Encyclopaedia of the Russian Revolution.

As soon as war broke out, I joined the internationalists, and with Trotsky, Manuilsky and Antonov-Ovseyenko edited the anti-militarist journal

(2) Anatoli Lunarcharsky wrote about the role of Leon Trotsky in the failed 1905 Russian Revolution his book Silhouettes.

Trotsky's popularity among the St.

Petersburg proletariat was very great by the time of his arrest, and this was increased still further by his strikingly effective and heroic behaviour at the trial.

Anatoly Lunacharsky | Smart History of Russia

I must say that Trotsky, of all the Social Democratic leaders of 1905-06, undoubtedly showed himself, in spite of his youth, the best prepared; and he was the least stamped by the narrow emigre outlook which handicapped even Lenin. He realized better than the others what a state struggle is. He came out of the revolution, too, with the greatest gains in popularity;