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Trotsky’s return from exile: ‘Incredible as a dream’

After being imprisoned in Canada for a month on orders of British imperialism, revolutionary Leon Trotsky finally arrived in Petrograd on May 17 [May 4, old style], 1917.

At Beloostrov, the station on the Finnish border, we were welcomed by a delegation of the United Internationalists and the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks. No one was there from the Mensheviks – not even from their…