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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Russian Revolution
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Contents
General
The Tsarist State
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The Russian Revolution
- WEB History of
Russia and the former USSR [At Internet Archive]
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WEB The Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Internet
Archive [At Marxists.org]
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WEB The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive [At Marxists.org]
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WEB The Josef Marxists [At Marxists.org]
- Summary: The Russian
Revolution
- The Development of the Opposition
- Lenin
- 1905
- Workers' Petition, January 9th 1905 (Bloody Sunday) [At SHU] [Internet Archive version here]
- Manifesto of 17 October 1905 [At SHU] [Internet Archive version here]
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The Russian Fundamental Law of 23 April 1906 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
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The Stolypin Agrarian Reform: On Peasants Leaving the Land Commune (obshchina), Ukaz of 9 November 1906 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
- Manifesto of June 3rd 1907 (Dissolution of the Second Duma) [At SHU] [Internet Archive version here]
- 1905 Party Programs
- Program of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1905 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
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Program of the Russian Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party, 1905 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
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The Octobrists [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
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The Nationalists [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
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Programme of the Union of the Russian People, 1905 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
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The Bolsheviks, Russian SDP
Program, 1 Aug 1903 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
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The Menscheviks: On the Seizure of Power and Participation in a Provisional Government, April 1905 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
- 1917
- WEB The October Revolution [At Marxists]
Timeline and many primary source documents.
- Telegram from the American
Consulate in Sweden to the U.S. Secretary of State March 17, 1917 [At Hanover]
- Telegram from the American
Consulate in Petrograd to the U.S. Secretary of State March 20, 1917 [At Hanover]
- Telegram from the American
Consulate in Moscow to the U.S. Secretary of State March 20, 1917 [At Hanover]
- Tsar Nicholas II, Abdication March 15, 1917 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
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The First Provisional Government Izvestiia, 3 March 1917 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
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Resolutions adopted by the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets June 1917 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
- Vladmir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): On His April Theses [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
- Vladmir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Call to Power Oct 24,
1917 [At this Site]
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Declaration of the Rights of the Toilng and Exploited Peoples 1917(?) [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
- Vladmir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): On the Organization of and Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter Revolution, Letter
to Dzerzhinskii, December 19, 1917 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
The origins of the Cheka, NKVD, and KGB.
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Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky: Leo
Trotsky, from Revolutionary Silhouttes [At Marxists.org]
- Louise Bryant (1885-1939): Six Red Months in Russia: An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship
1918, full text [At Marxists.org]
- John Reed (1887-1920): Ten Days that Shook the World 1919, full text [At Marxists.org]
- YouTube: The Russian Revolution, from the film Reds 1981, based on the experiences of Louise Bryant and her husband John Reed [YouTube links are subject to change.]
The entire October Revolution takes place during a singing of the The Internationale.
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Bolshevik Rule to 1924
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Stalinism
- WEB Revelations From the Russian Archives [At Library of Congress]
A tremendous resource from an exhibition in 1992.
- WEB The Great Terror 1939-1939 [At Marxists]
Timeline and many primary source documents.
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Josef Stalin (1879-1953): Marxism and the
National Question 1913 [At Marxists]
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Josef Stalin (1879-1953): Trotskyism or
Leninism? 1924 [At Marxists]
- Josef Stalin (1879-1953): Industrialization of the Country 1928 [At this Site]
- Josef Stalin (1879-1953): One Rapid Industrialization 1931 [At SHU] [Internet Archive version here]
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Josef Stalin (1879-1953): Dialectical and
Historical Materialism 1938 [At Marxists]
- Dizzy With Success: Concerning Questions of the Collective Farm Movement from Pravda, March 2, 1930. [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
- Collective Farms of the Union 1929-1940 [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
- Memorandum on the Grain Problem 1932 [At Library of Congress]
The memo which indicates the deliberate start of the Ukrainian famine.
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Constitution
of the USSR, 1936 [At Bucknell] [Internet Archive version here] or represented as an Organizational Chart [At Brooklyn]
- Joseph Stalin: Dialectical and
Historical Materialism (September 1938) [At Artbin] [Internet Archive version here]
- Hymn to Stalin [At this Site]
The cult of personality.
- Osip Mandelstam (1934?), and Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1962): Poems on Stalin [At this Site]
- The Soviet Purges: Official Explanation, 1936, excerpts
[At this Site]
- The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite
Terrorist Centre, Heard before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R.,
Moscow, August 19-24, 1936" (Overview) [Divided into 10 files][At Artbin] [Internet Archive version here]
- N.I. Bukharin: Last Plea, from
"The case of the Anti-Soviet 'Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites', Heard before the
Military Colegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., Moscow, March 2-13, 1938 [At
Artbin] [Internet Archive version here]
- Rapprochement between The Orthodox Church and Soviet Government. Speech of M. G. Karpov at Council of the Orthodox
Church, 1945. [Was At Durham, now Internet Archive]
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