ABSTRACT
Leon Trotsky is associated with the Revolution of 1905 as one of the leaders of the St Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies, as the theoretician of the revolution and as its historian. This chapter examines these three aspects of Trotsky’s relationship with 1905 and argues that the 1905 Revolution may have had more of an impact upon Trotsky than he had upon it. Certainly Trotsky’s autobiography, My Life (1930), is an unreliable guide to its hero’s role in 1905.
