Documents of Soviet History, Volume 1: The Triumph of Bolshevism, 1917-1919

V. 1. The Triumph Of Bolshevism, 1917-1919 -- V. 2. Triumph And Retreat, 1920-1922 -- V. 3. Lenin's Heirs, 1923-1925 -- V. 4. Stalin Grasps Power, 1926-1928 -- V. 5. Revolution From Above, 1929-1931 -- V. 6. Restoration Of Order, 1932-1934 -- V. 7. Foundations Of Stalinism, 1935-1937 -- V. 8. Road To War, 1938-1940. Edited By Rex A. Wade. Vol. 4- Edited By Alex G. Cummins. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. FRONT Contents Introduction 1 THE YEAR The Overthrow of the Provisional Government and Establishment of Soviet Power. October 25 (November 7) 1917 The Bolsheviks* Socialist Opponents Denounce the Bolshevik Revolution and Leave the Congress of Soviets. October 25-26 (November 7-8) 1917 The Menshevik-Intemationalists Appeal to the Congress of Soviets for a Broad Socialist Government and Warn of Civil War. October 25-26 (November 7-8) 1917 Resolution of the Second Congress of Soviets on the Withdrawal of the Mensheviks and SRs. October 25-26 (November 7-8) 1917 Proclamation of Assumption of Power by the Congress of Soviets. October 25-26 (November 7-8) 1917 Decree on Peace. October 26 (November 8)1917 Decree on Land. October 26 (November 8) 1917 Formation and Composition of the New Government. October (November 28) 1917 Censorship of the Press. October 27 (November 9)1917 The Spread of the Revolution: Saratov. October 27 (November 9) 1917 On Popular Education. October 29 (November 11) 1917 Decree on the Eight-Hour Workday and the Duration and Division of Working Time. October 29 (November 1 1) 1917 The Vikzhel Appeal for a Broad Socialist Government. October (November 11)1917 The Bolshevik Central Committee Rejects a Broad-based Socialist Government. November 2 (15) 1917 Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia. November 2 (15) 1917 The Spread of the Revolution Delayed: Kharkov. November 2 (15) 1917 Central Executive Committee Debate on Censorship, on its Relationship to the Council of People’s Commissars, and the Resignation of Several Bolshevik Leaders. November 4 (17) 1917 Proclamation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. November 7 (20) 1917 CONTENTS Notification to Allied Governments of the Formation of the New Government and of the Soviet Proposal for an Armistice. November (20) 1917 Order to Commander-in-Chief Dukhonin Regarding an Armistice, Conversation Between the Government Leaders and General Dukhonin, and the Latter’s Dismissal. November 7-9 (20-22) 1917 Trotsky’s Report on the First Steps of Soviet Foreign Policy. November 8 (21) 1917 Abolition of Social Estates, Civil Ranks, Titles, and Their Replacement by “Citizens of the Russian Republic.” November10 (23) 1917 Establishment of Workers*Control in Industry. November14 (27) 1917 Appeal to Belligerents on Peace. November 14 (27) 1917 Appeal to the Moslems of Russia and the East. November 20 (December 3) 1917 Abolition of the Old Judicial System and Establishment of a New One. November 22 (December 5) 1917 Debate of the Outlawing of the Constitutional Democrats and on the Constituent Assembly at the Central Executive Committee. December (14) 1917 Establishment of the Supreme Council of the National Economy. December 1 (14) 1917 Armistice Between Russia and the Central Powers. December 2(15)1917 Establishment of the Cheka. December 7 (20) 1917 Lenin’s Theses on the Constituent Assembly. December 1 1 or 12 (24 or 25) 1917 Nationalization of Banks. December 14 (27) 1917 Election of Officers and Abolition of Ranks in the Army. December (29) 1917 Decree on Divorce. December 16 (29), 1917 Marriage, Children, and Civil Registration. December 18(31)1917 Revolutionary Tribunal of the Press. December 18 (31)1917 On Revolutionary Tribunals. December 19, 1917 (January 1, 1918 Report by Stalin on Finnish Independence and Self-Determination. December 22, 1917 (January 4, 1918 On the Rights and Duties of Local Soviets. December 24, 1917 (January 6, 1918) and January 9 (22) 1918 Krylenko’s Appeal for Volunteers to Form a Socialist People’s Guard. December 25, 1917 (January 7, 1918 Life in a Provincial City. December 28-31, 1917 (January 10-13, 1918 CONTENTS 2 THE YEAR Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly. January 6(19) 1918 Lenin on the Need for an Immediate Peace. January 7 (20) 1918 Ukrainian Declaration of Independence. January 9 (22) 1918 The Trade Unions and the Soviet Government. January 10 (23) 1918 Declaration of the Rights of the Working and Exploited People. January 12(25) 1918 Establishment of the Red Army. January 15 (28) 1918 Stalin on the Nationality Question and Self-Determination. January (28) 1918 Patriarch Tikhon Anathemizes the Bolsheviks and Calls for Defense of the Church. January 19 (February 1) 1918 Separation of Church and State, Church and Schools, and Religious Rights and Freedoms. January 20 (February 2) 1918 Annulment of State Loans. January 21 (February 3) 1918 Introduction of a New Calendar. January 24 (February 6) 1918 Socialization of the Land. January 27 (February 9) 1918 No War No Peace! Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk Declares Russia’s Participation in the War Ended. January 28 (February 10) 1918 Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. March 3, 1918 Trotsky Inquires about American Assistance Against Germany and Japan. March 5, 1918 Change of the Party Name to “Communist” and Decision to Revise the Party Program. March 8, 1918 The Futurists and Public Art: “Let the Streets be a Feast of Art for All.” March 15, 1918 The “Left-Wing” Communists. April 4, 1918 Soviet Response to the Japanese Landing at Vladivostok. April 5, 1918 The Role of Military Commissars. April 6, 1918 Malevich, “Architecture as a Slap in the Face to Ferro-Concrete.” April 6, 1918 Soviet Federalism—An Interview with Stalin. April 9, 1918 The Removal of Old Monuments and Erection of New Monuments to the Revolution. April 12, 1918 Soviet Protest over Rumanian Annexation of Bessarabia. April 18, 1918 Introduction of Compulsory Military Training. April 22, 1918 Lenin, “The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government.” April 28, 1918 German Intervention in the Ukraine and Skoropadsky’s Assumption of Power. April 29, 1918 CONTENTS May First Manifesto. May 1, 1918 Decree on Food Procurement. May 13, 1918 Lenin on International Relations. May 14, 1918 Revolt of the Czechoslovak Troops. May 20-25, 1918 Declaration of an Independent Georgian Democratic Republic. May 26, 1918 To Arms Against Counter-Revolutionaries. May 30, 1918 A Bolshevik Call for Cossack Support. May 3 1, 1918 Committees of the Village Poor. June 1 1, 1918 Expulsion of the SRs and Mensheviks from the Central Executive Committee. June 14, 1918 Travel in the Countryside. June 27-28, 1918 Nationalization of Industry. June 28, 1918 Allied Decision to Intervene. July 2, 1918 The Left SR Assassination of the German Ambassador and Attack on the Bolsheviks. July 6-7, 1918 Report on the Food Situation to the Fifth Congress of Soviets and Resolution of the Congress. July 9, 1918 Trotsky’s Report on the Army and the Fifth Congress of Soviets* Resolution on Military Matters. July 10, 1918 Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. July 10, 1918 The United States Government on Allied Intervention. July 17, 1918 The Democratic Counterrevolution. The Committee of the Members of the Constituent Assembly. July 25, 1918 A Socialist Revolutionary and Menshevik Manifesto Against the Bolsheviks. July 29, 1918 Open Admission to Universities and Higher Education. August 2, 1918 Food Requisition Detachments. August 4, 1918 Trotsky’s Assessment of the Red Army. August 15, 1918 Organization and Activity of Grain Requisition Detachments. August 20, 1918 Trotsky on the Command of the Red Army. August 23, 1918 The Attempted Assassination of Lenin. August 30, 1918 Intensification of the Red Terror. September 4-5, 1918 Terror and its Defense. A Protest by the Neutral Powers and Chicherin’s Response. September 5 and 12, 1918 Arrests and Executions Following the Attempted Assassination of Lenin. September 12, 1918 CONTENTS Requisition and Distribution of Housing in Moscow. September 17, 1918 Holding Families of Officers Hostage. September 30, 1918 Resolution of the Central Executive Committee about Imminent Revolution in Europe. October 3, 1918 Trotsky vs. Stalin. The Conflict at Tsaritsyn Over Military Policy and Organization. October 3 and 4, 1918 The Unified Labor School. October 16, 1918 Lunacharsky on the Unified Labor School. October 16, 1918 Trotsky on the Military Situation and an Appeal to Petrograd Workers. October 21, 1918 Chicherin to President Wilson on World Peace and Intervention in Russia. October 24, 1918 The Labor Laws and Compulsory Labor Duty. October 31, 1918 Manifesto from the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars to the Workers of Austria-Hungary. November 3, 1918 Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Proletarian Democracy. Lenin’s The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky. November 10, 1918 Women and the Family in the Communist State. November 16-21, 1918 Admiral Kolchak Assumes Power. November 18, 1918 Trotsky on Discipline. Order to the Troops on the Southern Front. November 24, 1918 Altman, “Futurism” and Proletarian Art. December 15, 1918 Russian Appeal for a Peace Treaty with the Allies. Litvinov to Wilson. December 24, 1918 Lunacharsky on the State and the Controversy in the Arts. December 29, 1918 3 THE YEAR Stepanova on Non-Objective Artistic Creativity. January, 1919 Instructions of the Central Committee to Party Cells of Red Army Units of the Front and Rear. January 5, 1919 Forced Labor by the Bourgeoisie and Daily Life in Moscow. January 5- 9, 1919 Trotsky on the Use of Specialists. January 10, 1919 Restriction of Workers*Control. January 23, 1919 Invitation to the First Congress of the Communist International (Comintern). January 24, 1919 Manifesto of the Communist-Futurists (Komfut). January 26, 1919 CONTENTS The Liquidation of Illiteracy. January 29, 1919 Soviet Willingness to Meet at a Proposed Conference at Prinkipo. February 4, 1919 Opening of a Workers*Higher Education Faculty. February 12, 1919 A Socialist System of Agriculture. February 14, 1919 Housing in Moscow. February 24-27, 1919 Resolutions Constituting the Communist International. March 4, 1919 First Platform of the Communist International. March 6, 1919 Manifesto of the Communist International. March 6, 1919 Resolution of the Communist International on the Role of Working Women. March 6, 1919 Program of the Russian Communist Party. March 22, 1919 Party Organization and Structure. March 22, 1919 Establishment of an Autonomous Bashkir Soviet Republic. March 23, 1919 Political and Educational Work in the Villages. March 23, 1919 Agrarian and Labor Policies of the White Governments. March 23, 1919 Kolchak on the Future of Russia. April 19, 1919 Searching for Foodstuffs in the Countryside. May 5, 1919 Mobilization of Workers into the Red Army. May 9, 1919 Allied “Recognition” of Admiral Kolchak’s Government. May 26, 1919 Attempted Unification of the Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Belorussian Soviet Republics. June 1, 1919 Labor Books. June 25, 1919 Introduction of the “Subbotnik.” June 28, 1919 Exhortation to the Party Organizations in the Fight Against Denikin. July 9, 1919 A Menshevik Program for Russia. July 12, 1919 An Appeal Against Pogroms. Summer, 1919 The Activity of the Commissariat for Social Welfare. August 16, 1919 Lord Curzon on the Allied Intervention in Russia. August 21, 1919 The Rabfaky, Workers’ Faculties, and Higher Education. September 11, 1919 Note to Latvia Regarding Peace Negotiations. September 22, 1919 Official Soviet Wireless Messages. October 1, 1919 A Party Membership Recruitment Drive. October 1, 1919 Results and Prospects of Soviet Economic Policy. A Report after Two Years. November 7, 1919 CONTENTS Civil War Conditions in the Ukraine. December 1, 1919 Rules of the Communist Party. December 4, 1919 Labor Armies. December 16,1919 Lunacharsky. The Tasks of the State Cinema in Russia. 1919 Propaganda Trains. 1919 Russia’s Currency and Economic Situation. 1919 Documents by MainTopics Glossary Sources Cited Acknowledgements Permissions Indexes Index of Names 43 Index of Subjects Index of Geographic and Place Names