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