Dear Comrades: Menshevik Reports on the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War (Volume 389) (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

This book presents for the first time in English a collection of previously unpublished Menshevik documents from the Hoover Institution Archives. It draws a dramatic picture of the Russian Civil War and the establishment of the communist dictatorship as witnessed by the Russian Social Democrats, or Mensheviks. When the opposing Bolsheviks consolidated their power to emerge as the ruling party of the 1917 revolution, the Mensheviks' political influence was swept away and most were driven to exile. This collection is a mosaic of small pictures, specific situations, and tragedies that combine to form a large picture of conflict, struggle, and repression. It depicts the everyday reality of the Bolshevik dictatorship and shows the formation of the new mentality of communist rulers and their new relationship with the workers—how unquestioning obedience, military discipline, and intolerance replaced the free-wheeling multiparty competition of 1917. DEAR COMRADES Menshevik Reports on the Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War Iu. O. Martov to P. B. Axelrod Iu. O. Martov to P. B. Axelrod F. I. Dan to P. B. Axelrod Regional Party Conference in Moscow Open Letter of the Don Committee of the RSDWP “Underhandedly” Among the Workers The Yaroslavl Proletariat in the Dock Disbanding the Tambov Soviet Kovrov: Vladimir Province Around Russia: Roslavl Nightmares Around Russia: The Berezovskii Plant in the Urals Brief Reports from the Provinces Iu. O. Martov to A. N. Stein The Working Class under the Bolshevik Dictatorship Iu. O. Martov to A. N. Stein Concerning the Situation in Russia and in the RSDWP New Course in Soviet Russia (letters from Russia) News from Russia Brief Notes from Local SD Organizations Around the Bryansk Region A Strike for Food (Viazniki, Vladimir province) Resolution of the Motovilikha Plant Workers (Perm province) What Is Happening in Tula? Leaflet of the Menshevik Central Committee Letter from a Comrade Who Left Russia at the Beginning of April 1919 From Odessa to Tbilisi Uprisings in Samara and Simbirsk Provinces A Letter from the Kiev Council of Trade Unions to the Workers of Western Europe Declaration of the Workers’ Delegation to the Commission on Labor Legislation Resolution of the Central Council of Trade Unions in the South of Russia against Anti-Jewish Pogroms Report of the SD Delegation to the Central Committee The Bryansk Region (excerpt from the report of the local SD organization to the Central Committee) In Tver (1920) Rafail Abramovich to Pavel Axelrod To the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party Iu. O. Martov to S. D. Shchupak A Letter to Pavel Axelrod Persecution of Socialists in Russia in 1920 Report of the Right Mensheviks Insurrectionary Movement (a letter from Moscow) An Appeal to the International Proletariat from a Prison in Tobolsk Edited And Translated By Vladimir N. Brovkin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [247]-252) And Index.