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Russian Revolution

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Contents

The Tsarist State
Russian Revolution

The Development of the Opposition
Lenin
1905
1905 Party Programs
1917

Bolshevik Rule to 1924
Stalinism

The Tsarist State

Count von Moltke: The Coronation of Tsar Alexander II, 1855 [At this Site]
Alexander II, The Emancipation Manifesto, March 3 1861 [new style][At SHU]
Théophile Gautier: The Races on the Neva River, 1870 [At this Site]
Mary Antin: A Little Jewish Girl in the Russian Pale, 1890 [At this Site]
Prince Ukhtomskii: Russia's Imperial Destiny, 1891 [At this Site]
Sergei Witte, On the tasks for economic policy, 1900 [At Durham]
Commander Vladimir Semenoff: Coaling at Sea, 1905 [At this Site]
The adventures of a Russian ship on its way to the Russo-Japanese war.
Lindon Bates, Jr.: In a Tartar Tent, c. 1909 [At this Site]

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The Russian Revolution

WEB Russian Revolution on the Web Guide
WEB History of Russia and the former USSR [At Internet Archive]
WEB The Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Internet Archive [At Marxists.org]
WEB The Leon Trotsky Internet Archive [At Marxists.org]
WEB The Josef Stalin Internet Archive [At Marxists.org]
SUMMARY: The Russian Revolution
The Development of the Opposition
- Baroness M. De Packh: On The March to Siberia, c. 1840 [At this Site]
- The People's Will
- Maria Sukloff: The Story of An Assassination, extracts [At WSU]
- Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky: George Plekhanov, from Revolutionary Silhouttes [At Marxists.Org], alternative site [At Artbin]
- George V. Plekhanov: The Role of the Individual in History [At Artbin]
Lenin
- Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Our Programme, 1899, [At this Site]
- Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): What is to Be Done?, 1902, extended excerpts [At this Site]
- Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): What is to Be Done?, extracts [At WSU]
- Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): The State and Revolution, 1918, extended excerpts [At this Site]
- Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Excerpts from Lenin's Testament, 1922 [At this Site]
  Lenin's judegments on his colleagues.
1905
- Manifesto of 17 October 1905 [At Durham]
- The Russian Fundamental Law of 23 April 1906 [At Durham]
- The Stolypin Agrarian Reform: On Peasants Leaving the Land Commune (obshchina), Ukaz of 9 November 1906 [At Durham]
- 1905 Party Programs
  - Program of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1905 [At Durham]
  - Program of the Russian Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party, 1905 [At Durham]
  - The Octobrists [At Durham]
  - The Nationalists [At Durham]
  - Programme of the Union of the Russian People, 1905 [At Durham]
  - The Bolsheviks, Russian SDP Program, 1 Aug 1903 [At Durham]
  - The Menscheviks: On the Seizure of Power and Participation in a Provisional Government, April 1905 [At Durham]
1917
- Tsar Nicholas II, Abdication, March 15, 1917 [At Durham]
- The First Provisional Government, Izvestiia, 3 March 1917 [At Durham]
- Resolutions adopted by the First All-Russian Congress of Soviest, June 1917 [At Durham]
- Vladmir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): On His April Theses [At Durham]
- Vladmir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Call to Power, Oct 24, 1917 [At this Site]
- Declaration of the Rights of the Toilng and Exploited Peoples, 1917(?) [At Durham]
- Vladmir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): On the Organization of and Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter Revolution, Letter to Dzerzhinskii, December 19, 1917 [At Durham]
  The origins of the Cheka, NKVD, and KGB.
- Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky: Leo Trotsky, from Revolutionary Silhouttes [At Marxists.org]
- John Reed: 10 Days that Shook the World

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Bolshevik Rule to 1924

WEB LETTONIE - RUSSIE Traités et documents de base - in extenso
A major collection of documents on Soviet history especially as it relates to Lativia. All in French.
Constitution of the RSFSR, 1918 [At Marxists.org]
Fundamental Law of Land Socialization, Decree of the Central Executive Committee, February 19, 1918, [At Barnsdale]

Alexandra Kollontai: The Workers' Opposition, 1921 [At Marxists.Org]
Alexandra Kollontai: Communism and the Family, 1920 [At Marxists.Org]

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Stalinism

WEB Revelations From the Russian Archives [At LC]
A tremendous resource.
Josef Stalin (1879-1953): Marxism and the National Question 1913 [At Stalin Internet Archive]
Josef Stalin (1879-1953): Trotskyism or Leninism? 1924 [At Stalin Internet Archive]
Josef Stalin (1879-1953): Industrialization of the Country, 1928 [At this Site]
Josef Stalin (1879-1953): Dialectical and Historical Materialism 1938 [At Stalin Internet Archive]
Dizzy With Success: Concerning Questions of the Collective Farm Movement, from Pravda, March 2, 1930. [At Durham]
Collective Farms of the Union 1929-1940 [At Durham]
Memorandum on the Grain Problem, 1932 [At LC]
The memo which indicates the deliberate start of the Ukrainian famine.
Constitution of the USSR, 1936 [At Bucknell] or represented as an Organizational Chart [At Brooklyn]
Joseph Stalin: Dialectical and Historical Materialism (September 1938) [At Atbin]
Hymn to Stalin,
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]
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]
Rapprochement between The Orthodox Church and Soviet Government. Speech of M. G. Karpov at Council of the Orthodox Church, 1945. [At Durham]

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