October 1917 Soviet Merch

Worker breaking chain. Vintage soviet poster design.

"From the Military-Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. TO THE CITIZENS OF RUSSIA. The Provisional Government has been overthrown. State power has passed into the hands of the organ of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, the Military Revolutionary Committee, the leadership of the Petrograd proletariat and garrison. The cause for which the people have been fighting: the immediate offer of a democratic peace, the abolition of the landlords' property rights over the land, the workers' control of production, the creation of a government of the Soviets- this cause has been secured. LONG LIVE THE WORKERS', SOLDIERS' AND PEASANTS REVOLUTION!"

Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein;[b] 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Marxist revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician. Initially supporting the Menshevik Internationalists faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, he joined the Bolsheviks ("majority") just before the 1917 October Revolution, immediately becoming a leader within the Communist Party. He would go on to become one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution.[2] During the early days of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the...