One Leon Trotsky's The History of the Russian Revolution Chronological Table for Volume One 1774 Pugatehev Rebellion of Cossacks and peasants. The Paris Commune. Plekhanov publishes first pamphlet introducing Marxian socialism into Russia. The Revolution of 1905 in Russia. First organisation of soviets by Russian workers.
World War begins.
Germany declares war against Russia. Russian revolutionary internationalist paper, Nashe Slovo , appears in Paris with Trotsky on the editorial staff. International socialist congress in Zimmerwald, Switzerland. Second Congress of socialist internationalists at Kienthal. Shootings and arrests of revolutionists.