On 16th April 1917, Lenin returned to Russia in the midst of the Revolution. Lenin’s return marked a turning point for the Bolshevik Party – the beginning of a process of politically preparing the party for the seizure of power by the working class. We republish here an extract from Leon Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution about the political rearming of the Bolsheviks.

Alan Woods discusses the events surrounding Lenin’s return to Russia on 16th April 1917.

Hamid Alizadeh continues his series looking at the developments taking place in Russian in the lead-up to the outbreak of the February Revolution, which began 100 years ago. The war and deteriorating living standards were having a radicalising effect on the workers, peasants and soldiers of Russia, preparing the ground for the revolutionary events of 1917.