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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

• 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]