leon trotsky arrives from canada.r 1917, kerensky becomes head of the provisional government and proclaims russia a republic. universal suffrage, and elected constituent assembly. freedom of speech. equal rights for women. lenin on the kerensky republic. lenin: a democratic republic, more free under war conditions than any other country in the world. james: but in november, trotsky, leader of an army worker union, calls for the destruction of the republic. trotsky: political questions are designed -- as a matter of fact they are designed by class war. james: the class war is quick and relatively bloody. they take railroad stations, telegraph lines, government officers, and declare themselves in business. this is the russian version of a great event in that war, the storming of the winter palace. look at armstrong opening the gate under fire. the interesting thing is that it never happened. in actual fact the attack on the winter palace, it was pointed out, was in range of a rebel cruiser. it makes a nice picture. the

under trotsky's red army.es to turn over power to the soviet, but he leaves the building in disorder. a following day a few hundred citizens gather outside to protest the dismissal of the assembly they have elected. byy are probably shot down fire from the red army. >> class war. narrator: citizens of the soviet union still vote. but not since november, 1917, has more than one name for office appeared on the ballot. the assembly never reconvenes. power passes to the soviets which lenin controls and from there to the council of commissars where lenin's power is absolute. >> this is the dictatorship of the proletariat. power thataintains , is unrestricted by any law. resting directly on order. keep this well in mind. narrator: lenin makes peace with the germans, and then a genuine civil war breaks out. before it ends, the white russians rebel against the red. allied troops fight to keep russia in the war. cossacks fight for both sides to czarists try to restore the monarchy. the czar and his family are executed.

leon trotsky arrives from canada.of theecomes provisional government and proclaims russia a republic. universal suffrage, and elected constituent assembly. freedom of speech. equal rights for women. lenin, with the republic. >> a democratic republic, or green -- more greed than any other country in the world. narrator: but in november, trotsky, leader of an army walker union, call for the destruction of the republic. >> political questions are factned -- as a matter of they are designed by class war. narrator: it is relatively bloody. they take railroad stations, telegraph lines, government officers, and declare themselves in business. , theis the russian version storming of the winter palace. opening the gate under fire. never happened. in actual fact the attack on the winter palace, it was pointed out it was in range of a rebel cruiser. it makes a nice picture. the real violence comes later. on november 25, the election was held under -- to their amazement lost it, 3-1. army.trotsky's red refuses to turn over power

a tarion strain that culminated in stone because the great argument is we've already heard about trotsky in the could've been different variants different paths i'm not convinced of that i think it's a very totalitarian ideology. i'm not a big fan of the word totalitarian i think that itself is the ideology that was there was created in the west in the wake of the world. war through to try to equate fascism and communism which i believe is a false and i think the rodent's. i think. we have to remember that the soviet union was was born not only in internal struggle but it was from the moment of its creation it was attacked by drama calendar season under siege it wasn't this is left out of a lot of western history books that in one thousand nine hundred eighteen the western powers and japan. most european countries the united states they invaded the nost and soviet union in the middle of the civil war to try to strangle the lead in the cradle integrated and i mean we're talking one little incident that you know just in the past few years been recognized by the british press the guardian a

it was like meeting trotsky in 1905. it was like -- he has a 50-year plan or 100 year plan, like sarah palin was part of the plan, patrick buchanan was part of the plan. donald trump is just one little chapter in the plan. taking over institutions, creating a battle of ideas -- i think he is right. charlie: you think he is right on? david: that it will be around forever. that is the fundamental definition of our era. populism and response to populism. populism or liberalism. these are the two sides. what is striking about this battle is the populists are filled with conviction. they are organized, like people like bannon. the liberals would call them -- those who believe in free change -- i'm one. we're dispersed. we have no conviction, we have no faith in ourselves and we are so used to defending the things we believe in, we have forgotten all of the arguments. charlie: the newt gingrich revolution and the conservatives that preceded it when it became a movement, like we used to say from buckley to reagan and forward, t

but from local oil ceo job trotsky. what do you think?ll, it would be -- affect prices to the upside is saudi arabia certainly can export 10 million barrels a day, which is their price, but not in the past because of the u.s. shale production. our proven reserves are greater than theirs and their production is actually seeming mayors. if we go into the $60 range on wti, you will turn back a lot of producers. long-term, they are much more geopolitical implications that we want saudi arabia to get through this peacefully, to weed out the corruption and make the transformation from an extraction society to a global economy. neil: this looks a little weird to put it mildly. you know, tightening its grip on power, getting rid of or, you know, containing jail and some of his rivals in the kingdom, family members the lot of them. that doesn't sound good, but play it out. >> well, certainly he is stretching a little bit and peddling political scores and there is a part of this that is enriching his own base in his own power at the expense of riva

and the whole time, she has the boris johnsons, leo trotskys, pushing her towards a more bold, aggressiveit. jonathan: just like in d.c., the palace intrigue is fascinating. but the substance of the debate is what is important. there were three issues we were meant to address by now. brexit, the border between ireland and northern ireland, e.u.he citizenship of citizens. thebrexit bill from european side needs to be addressed in, what, the next to? will that get done? emma: they continue to fight over the timetable. a clearsays he wants timetable within two weeks. they do not need a clear number. they just need to make clear they do consider themselves on the hook. says two weeks, which would be the end of november. the summit comes around, they are prepared. they do not want to be doing negotiating in the summit room in mid-december. they have made that clear to me. -- may. david davis has said the real deadline is in december. we will have to see which side prevails. jonathan: bloomberg's emma ross thomas, thank you. sterling very much under pressure as pressure builds against prime min