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“The most indubitable feature of a revolution is the direct </i></strong><i><br>
<strong>interference of the masses in historical events. In
ordinary times the </strong><br>
<strong>state, be it monarchical or democratic, elevates itself
above the </strong><br>
<strong>nation, and history is made by specialists in that line
of business - </strong><br>
<strong>kings, ministers, bureaucrats, parliamentarians,
journalists. But at </strong><br>
<strong>those crucial moments when the old order becomes no
longer endurable to </strong><br>
<strong>the masses, they break over the barriers excluding them
from the </strong><br>
<strong>political arena, sweep aside their traditional
representatives, and </strong><br>
<strong>create by their own interference the initial groundwork
for a new </strong><br>
<strong>regime. Whether this is good or bad we leave to the
judgement of </strong><br>
<strong>moralists. We ourselves will take the facts as they are
given by the </strong><br>
<strong>objective course of development. The history of a
revolution is for us </strong><br>
<strong>first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the
masses into the </strong><br>
<strong>realm of rulership over their own destiny”</strong></i>
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(Leon Trotsky, preface to <i class="spip">History of the Russian
Revolution</i>)<br>
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