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Jonathan Daly – Leonid Trofimov, eds. Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1922. A Documentary History.

Biblioteca / 2000-2009 

Jonathan Daly – Leonid Trofimov, editors. Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1922. A Documentary History. 

Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2009.

xxxix, 371 páginas.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

1 – WAR AND SOCIAL UNREST

1 – Anonymous Letter by a Soldier, December 22, 1913

2 – P. N. Durnovo Memorandum to Nicholas II, February 1914

3 – Antiwar Appeal of Soldiers of the 437th Chernigov Infantry Brigade, February 1915

4 – A Textile- Workers Strike in Kostroma, June 1915

5 – Excerpts from Soldiers’ Letters, Intercepted by Censors, 1915-1917

6 –  V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: A Popular Outline

7 – Notes from Meetings of the Council of Ministers

8 – Description of General Headquarters, March 1916

9 – Selections from the Correspondence of Nicholas and Alexandra

10 – Economic Conditions in Russia, Fall 1916

11 – Pavel Miliukov’s Duma Speech of November 1, 1916

12 – The Murder of Rasputin, December 1916

2 – PEOPLE’S REVOLUTION

Revolution Triumphs

13 – A Call to Revolution by Mensheviks, January 1917

14 – International Women’s Day: The Revolution Begins, February 23-24, 1917

15 – Petrograd’s Police Chief Describes the Breakdown of Authority

16 – Revolutionary Appeal to Soldiers, February 27, 1917

17 – A Socialist Describes the Creation of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet

18 – Order No. 1, March 1, 1917

19 – Liberal Political Leaders as Russia’s Presumptive Government

20 – The Tsar’s Abdication, March 2, 1917

21 – The Provisional Government’s First Steps

The Revolution Reaches the Provinces

22 – The February Revolution in Irkutsk

23 – Description of the February Revolution in Transcaucasia

24 – Ukrainian Declaration and the Provisional Government’s Reply, June 1917

Praise and Criticism of the Revolution

25 – “What Is a Revolution?” Novoe vremia, March 12, 1917

26 – Newspaper Editorials on the Abolition of the Death Penalty, March 1917

27 – A Princess Experiences the Revolution, Early 1917

28 – V. I. Lenin, “The April Theses,” April 4, 1917

29 – I. Ehrenburg on the Revolutionary Violence, September 1917

Revolution and the Village

30 – Setting up Local Soviets in Tambov Province

31 – Finance Minister Andrei Shingarev on the Food Crisis, May 21, 1917

32 – Recollections of a Peasant, Nizhegorod Province, 1850s-1917

33 – A Female Peasant on the Revolution in Voronezh Province, 1917

Revolution and Religion

34 – Russian Orthodox Parishioners Request Institutional Autonomy, May 1917

35 – Resolutions of the First All-Russian Muslim Congress, May 1-11, 1917

Revolution and the War

36 – Fraternization on the Western Front, April 1917

37 – Proceedings of the Soldiers’ Section of the Petrograd Soviet, May 10, 1917

38 – Bolsheviks and Mensheviks Clash over an Alleged Insurrection, June 1917

39 – The Pavlovskii Guard Regiment Appeal to the First Turkestan Army Corps, June 1917

40 – Alexander Kerensky at the Front, July 7, 1917

41 – Russian Message to the Allies Following the July Days, July 19

The Provisional Government in Decline

42 – Bolshevik Activism in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, June 1917

43 – Alexander Kerensky on the Kornilov Affair, August 1917

3 – THE BOLSHEVIKS REVOLUTION AND THE ROAD TO A NEW WORLD

Soviet Power Is Born

44 – Vladimir Lenin Urges Seizure of Power, September 12-14, 1917

45 – Vladimir Lenin Urges Immediate Seizure of Power, October 1, 1917

46 – Putiloy Workers on Creating a Military Revolutionary Committee, October 24, 1917

47 – Speeches by Lenin and Trotsky to the Petrograd Soviet, October 25, 1917

48 – Joseph Stalin on the Nature of “Soviet Power,” October 26, 1917

49 – Revolutionary Demands of the 202nd Gori Infantry Regiment, November 4, 1917

Soviet Power Spreads to the Provinces

50 – The October Revolution in Saratov, October 26-28

51 – On Establishing Bolshevik Rule in Viatka Province, December 1917

52 – A Bolshevik Agitator in Perm Province, December 1917

53 – Report on Establishing Soviet Power in Nizhegorod Province, June 13, 1918

“Enemies of the People”

54 – Alexei Remizov, The Lay of the Ruin of the Russian Land, October 1917

55 – Diary of an Anonymous Russian Official, Late 1917

56 – A Soldier Rails against Officers and Elites, November 14, 1917

57 – The Murder of the Imperial Russian Family

58 – Private Letters from a Bolshevik Activist, July 17-18, 1918

59 – A Local Misunderstanding about the Role of Muslim Clergy, September 1918

60 – Correspondence of Maxim Gorky and V. I. Lenin, September 6 and 15, 1919

61 – Parishioners Demand to Teach the Catechism, December 1919

62 – Appeal to Lenin Denouncing the Burzhoois in Kazan, November 1920

Socialist Dreams

63 – V. I. Lenin, The State and Revolution, August 1917

64 – Declaration of the Rights of the Working and Exploited People, January 1918

65 – Anatoli Lunacharskii’s Description of the May Day Celebration, 1918

66 – Alexandra Kollontai, “Communism and the Family,” 1920

67 – H. G. Wells Meets with Lenin, 1920

The Bolsheviks Go to the Village

68 – “The Well Fed and the Hungry,” a Newspaper Commentary, April 1918

69 – Notes of a Grain-Confiscation Worker, October 1918

70 – Vladimir Mayakovsky Mocks an Avaricious Peasant Woman, 1920

71 – A Letter to Lenin from Peasants of Vologda Province, 1920

72 – Citizens in Kostroma Denounce the Closing of Their Church, February 1920

73 – Peasants Sentenced for Petty Commerce, January 1921

74 – Economic Conditions and Abuses in Rural Russia, January 1921

Matters of Survival

75 – A Soldier’s Petition for Assistance, January 4, 1918

76 – Letter by an Unknown Soldier to Lenin, February 20, 1918

77 – Travails of a Provincial University, 1918

78 – Intellectuals in Late 1918 and Early 1919

79 – Ordinary Life in Moscow, as Seen by a Schoolboy, November 1919

80 – Commerce and Money in Civil War Moscow

81 – A Letter from a Worker to Mikhail Kalinin, 1919

82 – The Tragedy of Abandoned Children in Civil War Russia

Building Socialism

83 – Grigorii Zinoviev at the All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions, January 7-14, 1918

84 – V.I. Lenin, “The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government,” April 1918

85 – Party-State Relations in Nizhegorod Province, October 1918

86 – A Feminist Agitator on Her Work in 1918-1919

87 – An Orthodox Clergyman Renounces His Priesthood, December 26, 1918

88 – Repressive Measures for Failure to Remove Snow, February 15, 1919

89 – Red Tape in Communist Russia, September 1919

90 – The Supreme Council of the National Economy in Action, February 1920

91 – The Electrification of Russia

Soviet Russia and the World

92 – The Polish-Soviet War, 1920

93 – Report on Activities of the Comintern, March 1921

94 – Soviet Policy in Regard to the Genoa Conference, May 1922

4 – POPULAR OPPOSITION AND CIVIL WARS

The Fate of the Constituent Assembly

95- A Peasant Recalls the Elections to the Constituent Assembly, November 1917

96 – Peasant Letters to the Constituent Assembly, December 1917-January 1918

97 – Viktor Chernov, “Russia’s One-Day Parliament,” January 5, 1918

98 – A Bolshevik Account of the Constituent Assembly

Worker Unrest

99 – Worker Complaints about Difficult Material Conditions, April 1918

100 – An Eyewitness Account of the Obukhov Plant Strike, June 1918

101 – Demands of Workers of the Yaroslavl Junction of the Northern Railroad, June 18, 1918

102 – Petrograd Factory Workers Call for a Strike, June 1918

103 – Instructions on Disrupting a Strike Planned for July 2, 1918

104 – Putilov Plant Workers Denounce Bolshevik Policies, August 1918

Red Terror

105 – Zinoviev’s Hysterical Reaction to the Assassination of Uritskii, August 30, 1918

106 – Official Demand of “Blood for Blood,” August 31, 1918

107 – Letter of V. G. Korolenko to A. V. Lunacharskii, June 19, 1920

Reds versus Whites and Those in Between

108 – Lenin on the Inevitability of Civil War, December 1917

109 – The Early Anti-Bolshevik Resistance and Why It Failed, Spring 1918

110 – Launching the Volunteer Army, 1917-1918

111 – Leon Trotsky’s Armored Train

112 – An Appeal to Join the Chinese Red Army Battalion

113 – An Imperial Russian General Fights for the Bolsheviks, February 1918

114 – An Appeal by Left SR Workers to Sailors and Red Army Men, March 19, 1919

115 – Winston Churchill Urges French Support for Anti-Bolshevik Forces, Late 1919

116 – Americas Intervention in Siberia, 1918-1920

117 – Activities of Nestor Makhno’s Partisans, February-May 1920

118 – Violence and Daily Life in a Jewish Community during the Civil War

119 – Intercepted Personal Correspondence, Samara Province, March 1920

120 – What Went Wrong with Denikin’s Volunteer Army, 1918-1920

Peasants in Revolt

121 – Complaint by Peasants in Penza Province, March 1919

122 – A Bolshevik Official Demands Peasant Surrender, Simbirsk Province, March 1919

123 – Report on Bolshevik “Cossack Policy” in the Don Region, July 1919

124 – An Appeal by the Altai Federation of Anarchists, Spring 1920

125 – Complaint of Dire Straits by Peasants in the Omsk Region, February 1921

126 – Demand That Peasant Rebels in Western Siberia Surrender, February 1921

127 – Petition from 300 Tambov Hostages to the All-Russian Cheka, November 25, 1921

The Birth of New Nations

128 – The Turkestan Liberation Movement, 1917

129 – Georgian and British Officials in Transcaucasia, September 1919

130 – Kalmyks at the First Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku, 1920

The Kronstadt Rebellion

131 – Worker Unrest in Petrograd, March 4, 1921

132 – Demands of the Kronstadt Rebels, March 6-16, 1921

133 – Satirical Verse, Published by the Kronstadt Rebels, March 6-16, 1921

134 – Official Statement on the Kronstadt Mutiny, March 8, 1921

5 – REVOLUTION’S FINALE

The New Economic Policy and the Countryside

135 – Announcement of the New Economic Policy, March 15, 1921

136 – A Report on Fighting “Red Banditry,” October 8, 1921

137 – Description of Famine Conditions in the Volga Region, 1921

138 – Famine in the Countryside of Samara Province, December 1921

139 – A Police Report on Political and Economic Conditions of the Peasantry, December 1922

Political Consolidation of the Bolshevik Regime

140 – Draft Resolution on Party Unity, March 1921

141 – Metropolitan Veniamin on Church-Supported Famine Relief, March 5, 1922

142 – Trotsky on Fostering a Schism within the Church, March 1922

143 – Speech by Abram Gots, Trial of Socialist-Revolutionaries, August 6, 1922

The New Soviet Society

144 – Communist Saturdays

145 – Soviet Russia’s Code of Labor Laws, 1919

146 – Proletarian Holidays

147 – Soviet Domestic Relations Law

148 – The Legalization of Abortion, November 1920

149 – Eradication of Illiteracy in Cherepovets

150 – Preparing for the Abolition of Money, January 1921

Soviet Culture: From Liberation to Subjugation

151 – Education and the Arts, an Official Report, 1921

152 – Senior Cheka Officials Oppose Cultural Elites Traveling Abroad, May 1921

153 – Handling Russia’s Cultural Elites, June 1922

154 – Official Denunciation of Non-Communist Intellectuals, August 1922

155 – Fedor Stepun Is Expelled from Soviet Russia

156 – The Institutionalization of Soviet Censorship, December 2, 1922

The Revolution’s Heirs

157 – The Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, December 1922

158 – Lenin’s “Testament,” December 1922 to January 1923

Glossary

Chronology of War and Revolution