This thesis seeks to combat the dominant view that socialist revolutions are inherently authoritarian endeavors opposed to democratic values. In response, we apply a lens of representative democracy to socialist revolution, first in the abstract, and then through selected case studies of the Paris Commune of 1871 and the German Revolution of 1918. We posit that revolutionaries can and should work to actively represent the interests of the people through revolutionary organizing, and that a revolutionary people in turn must hold leaders accountable to their interests.