Rex Wade, ed. Documents of Soviet History, vol. 2.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

The Year 1920

1 – The Military Situation at the Opening of 1920. 2 January 1920

2 – Establishment of the First Labor Army. 15 January 1920

3 – Order to the Third Red Army-First Labor Army. 15 January 1920

4 – The Manpower Crisis and Compulsory Labor. 22 January 1920

5 – Declaration of the Council of People’s Commissars to the Polish Government and the Polish Nation. 28 January 1920

6 – Compulsory Labor. 29 January 1920

7 – Solving the Transportation Problem. 1 February 1920

8 – Election Rules, Moscow Soviet. 9 February 1920

9 – One Man Versus Collegial Management. 31 March 1920

10 – Trade Union Democracy. 31 March 1920

11 – The Party and the Trade Unions. 1 April 1920

12 – Mobilization of Workers-The Mine Workers. 16 April 1920

13 – «Left-Wing» Communism-An Infantile Disorder. April 1920

14 – Food Policy of the Soviet Government. Spring 1920

15 – A Proposed League of Nations Commission of Inquiry to Russia and the Soviet Response. May 1920

16 – Georgian Independence. 7 May 1920

17 – Reorganization of the People’s Commissariat for Nationalities. 19 May 1920

18 – War with Poland: Theses of the Russian Communist Party. 23 May 1920

19 – Trotsky, Terror and Communism. 29 May 1920

20 – The Village of Ozero. Early Summer 1920

21 – Zinoviev on the World Revolution: Opening Address to the Second Congress of the Comintern. 19 July 1920

22 – The Role of the Communist Party in the Proletarian Revolution: Theses Adopted by the Second Congress of the Comintern. 24 July 1920

23 – Bukharin on Women under the Soviet System. 31 July 1920

24 – Statutes of the Communist International. 4 August 1920

25 – Conditions of Admission to the Communist International. 4 August 1920

26 – The Tasks of the Komsomol. 2 October 1920

27 – Lunacharsky Reports on the Work of the Commissariat of Education. 5 October 1920

28 – Proletcult. 5-11 October 1920

29 – Proletcult and the Party – I. 8 October 1920

30 – Stalin on the Government’s Nationality Policy. 10 October 1920

31 – Mass Spectacles: «The Storming of the Winter Palace.» 7 November 1920

32 – Decline of Industrial Output. 14 November 1920

33 – The Decree on Abortion. 18 November 1920

34 – Trotsky on the End of Wars. 30 November 1920

35 – Lunacharsky and Slavinsky on the Arts and Their Role. 30 November 1920

36 – Proletcult and the Party – II. 1 December 1920

37 – Sovietization of Armenia. 2 December 1920

38 – Alliance and Semi-Unification of the Russian and Ukrainian Republics. 12 December 1920

39 – «Communism is Soviet Power Plus the Electrification of the Whole Country.» 22 December 1920

40 – Theater and the Arts-A Report on Their Development Under War Communism. 31 December 1920

41 – «Out of School» Education-A Report. 31 December 1920

CHAPTER 2

The Year 1921

42 – Lenin Authorizes the Invasion of Georgia. 14 February 1921

43 – The Establishment of Gosplan. 22 February 1921

44 – The Workers’ Opposition. February-March 1921

45 – Peasant Revolt: The Tambov or Antonov Rebellion. Late Winter-Early Spring 1921

46 – Semashko on Public Health Under Soviet Power. [March] 1921

47 – Resolution of the Kronstadt Sailors. 1 March 1921

48 – Kronstadt: Soviet Ultimatums. 5 March 1921

49 – Kronstadt: «What Are We Fighting For.» 8 March 1921

50 – The Trade Union Controversy at the Tenth Party Congress. 14 March 1921

51 – Lenin Explains the Tax in Kind and the New Policy. 15 March 1921

52 – On Party Unity-The Tenth Party Congress. 16 March 1921

53 – Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement. 16 March 1921

54 – Joffe’s Comments on the Significance of the Peace Treaty with Poland. 18 March 1921

55 – Soviet-American Relations. 20, 25 March 1921

56 – The New Economic Policy-The Agricultural Tax in Kind. 21 March 1921

57 – Lenin on NEP. 27, 28 May 1921

58 – Expulsion and Admission of Parties to the Comintern: Report of the Executive Committee. 9 June 1921

59 – The International Situation and the Comintern. 4 July 1921

60 – Work Among Women and the Role of Women in the Party: Theses of the Comintern. 8 July 1921

61 – The Red International of Trade Unions: Theses of the Comintern. 12 July 1921

62 – The Famine: Gorky’s Appeal. 13 July 1921

63 – Soviet Protest at Being Excluded from the Washington Conference. 19 July 1921 5

64 – The Famine: Hoover’s Response to Gorky’s Appeal. 23 July 1921

65 – Soviet Acceptance of the A.R.A. Offer of Famine Relief. 28 July 1921

66 – The Famine: The A.R.A.-Soviet Agreement. 20 August 1921

67 – Alexandra Kollontai, «The Fight Against Prostitution.» August 1921

68 – American Descriptions of the Volga Famine. September-November 1921

69 – Soviet Note on Debts and International Relations. 28 October 1921

70 – Women in Soviet Russia-A Report. Fall 1921

71 – The Agitation and Propaganda Department. 22 November 1921

72 – Comintern Theses on the United Front. 18 December 1921

73 – Reports on the Economy to the Ninth Congress of Soviets. 23-28 December 1921

CHAPTER 3

The Year 1922

74 – Chicherin Accepts the Invitation to the Genoa Conference. 8 January 1922

75 – The Council of Labor and Defense. 15 January 1922

76 – Lenin on Cinema-The Most Important of the Arts. 17 January 1922

77 – Reorganization of the Secret Police: Abolition of the Cheka and Formation of the GPU. 8 February 1922

78 – Lenin on NEP: Its Role and Future. 27 March 1922

79 – Appointment of Stalin as General Secretary. 3 April 1922

80 – Chicherin’s Statement of the Soviet Position at the Opening of the Genoa Conference. 10 April 1922

81 – Treaty of Rapallo. 16 April 1922

82 – Soviet Delegation at Genoa: Memorandum on Debts and Economic Issues. 20 April 1922

83 – The Question of a Military Convention along with the Treaty of Rapallo. 29 April 1922

84 – The New Agrarian Land Law-An Explanation. 12 May 1922

85 – Kursky Explains the New Law on Property. 13 May 1922

86 – Kursky on Soviet Law and the New Criminal Code. 14-15 May 1922

87 – NEP-The Law on Land Tenure and Use. 22 May 1922

88 – NEP-The Right of Private Property in Commerce and Industry. 22 May 1922

89 – Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries. 27 May 1922

90 – Glavit-Establishment of the Censorship Office. 6 June 1922

91 – Declaration of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR). June 1922

92 – Instructions for Registering Associations and Societies. 10 August 1922

93 – The New Peasant Woman: Mary the Bolshevist. 15 September 1922

94 – Foreign Trade Monopoly. 16 October 1922

95 – The Code of Labor Laws. 30 October 1922

96 – Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of the Revolution – I. 7 November 1922

97 – Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of the Revolution – II. 7 November 1922

98 – Soviet Courts and Judicial Institutions. 11 November 1922

99 – The Civil Code. 11 November 1922

100 – Good and Bad Factory Managers. November-December 1922

101 – Lenin Evaluates the Party and Its Leaders. 23 December 1922-4 January 1923

102 – Lenin on the Nationality Question and Formation of the USSR. 30-31 December 1922

103 – Formation of the USSR: Declaration of Union and Treaty of Union. 30 December 1922

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Indexes

Index of Personal Names

Index of Subjects

Index of Institutions

Index of Geographic and Place Names