title: Was Lev Trotsky the leader in the Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies in 1905?
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metadata.value: Strekalov, I. N.
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metadata.value: 2021-11-08T19:06:11Z
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metadata.value: 2021-11-08T19:06:11Z
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metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.value: Strekalov I. N. ‘Was Lev Trotsky the leader in the Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies in 1905?’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 2, 2021, pp. 356–369.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.204
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33492
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metadata.value: The article reexamines the role of famous revolutionary and Social Democrat L. D. Trotsky in the Petersburg
  Soviet of Workers’ Deputies. One claim in the scholarly literature is that Trotsky was the leader of the
  Soviet, but this is based on his or someone else’s memoirs. This article analyzes this position: first, memoirs about
  the thesis on Trotsky’s prominent role as speaker during meetings of the Soviet, and the argument about Trotsky’s
  support in the Soviet; also, the question about the rating of the formal chairman of the Soviet, G. S. Khrustalev-Nosar,
  is discussed. This examination is based on archival documents: records of the interrogations of participants
  of the Soviet’s meetings written between the end of 1905 and the spring of 1906; letters written by Trotsky (mostly
  in the pre-revolutionary period); and the works of G. S. Khrustalev-Nosar. Analytic and comparative methods suggest
  that these sources are more objective than memoirs written many years after 1905 and in another historical
  context. The article concludes that Trotsky’s role in the Petersburg Soviet is exaggerated: memoirs are subjective
  or analyzed only from one point of view, and sources closest to the time show that Trotsky was a participant and
  even the prominent speaker in Soviet meetings, but he did not find wide ideological support there. The formal
  chairman of the Soviet, G. S. Khrustalev-Nosar, had enough authority, denying the claim that Trotsky was the one
  and only leader of the Soviet.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Trotsky Petersburg Soviet
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: First Russian Revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Khrustalev-Nosar
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: memoirs
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social-democracy
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Was Lev Trotsky the leader in the Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies in 1905?
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metadata.value: Article
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