Trotsky Arouses the People

N.N. Sukhanov

Trotsky Arouses the People

Thesis: Sukenov as an eyewitness of Leon Trotsky speech arousing the people explains how the Leon seems to have manipulated the people into revolutionary frenzy.

· N.N. Sukhanov an eyewitness to Leon Trotsky’s speech

o The Menshevik (Social Democrat Moderate) leader

o In the his book The Russian Revolution

· Leon Trotsky

o Elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet

o Masterminded the Military-Revolutionary Committee, the Bolshevik strike force

· Leon Trotsky’s rousing speech at the People’s House

o The audience was about 3,000 primarily workers and soldiers, but more than a few typically lower middle-class men.

o Trotsky heats up the atmosphere with a extraordinary depiction of the trenches and that the Soviet regime would end the stuffing in these trenches.

o The Soviets would also give land and heal internal disorder

o He went further to say that the Soviet Government will give it all the country has to the poor and the men in the trenches and that the bourgeois should give up its excess for the men in the trenches and the working man

o Sukhanov describes the mood of the audience as bordering on ecstasy

o Sukhanov also asks if these people had been penetrated by a consciousness of political occasion, under the influence of the political agitation of a socialist.

o Sukhabov finishes by explaining this same mood in the audience was being felt all over Petersburg and the insurrection had already begun.