Documentary History of Communism in Russia by Daniels, Robert V. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface (1960 Edition) Preface (Revised Edition) Preface (1993 Edition) Introduction: The Evolution of the Communist Mind-In Russia Chapter One: Leninism and the Bolshevik Party, to 1917

Lenin as a Marxist: What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats (1894) The Foundation of the Russian Marxist Party: Manifesto of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (1898) Lenin's Theory of the Party: What Is to Be Done? (1902) Lenin on the Party Split: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (May, 1904) Marxist Reactions to Lenin-Rosa Luxemburg: Leninism or Marxism (1904) Marxist Reactions to Lenin-Leon Trotsky: Our Political Tasks (1904) Organization of the Bolshevik Faction: Resolution of the Twenty-Two (August, 1904) Lenin on the Revolution of 1905: Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (July, 1905) Trotsky on "Permanent Revolution": Results and Prospects (1906) Lenin on Democratic Centralism: Freedom of Criticism and Unity of Action (June, 1906) Bogdanov's Philosophical Revision of Marxism: Empiriomonism (1905-6) Lenin's Philosophical Orthodoxy: Materialism and Empiriocriticism (1908) The Purge of the Bolshevik Left Wing (June, 1909)

a) Communique on the Conference b) Resolution on Otzovism and Ultimatism

The Ultra-Left on Lenin's Compromises: Declarations of the "Forward" Group (1910)

a) Bogdanov, "Letter to All Comrades" b) "Letter to Our Bolshevik Comrades"

Stalin on National Self-Determination: Marxism and the National Question (1913) Lenin on the Uneven Prospects of Revolution: The United States of Europe Slogan (August, 1915) Bukharin on the Imperialist State: On the Theory of the Imperialist State (1916)

Chapter Two: The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1921

Lenin's Return to Russia: On the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (April 7 [20], 1917) Lenin on the Soviets: On the Dual Power (April 9 [22] 1917) Lenin's Vision of the Revolutionary State: The State and Revolution (August-September, 1917) Lenin's Call for an Uprising: Marxism and Insurrection (September 13-14 [26-27], 1917) The Declaration of Revolutionary Intent-Trotsky: Declaration of the Bolshevik Fraction (October 7 [20], 1917) The Decision to Seize Power: Resolution of the Central Committee, On the Armed Uprising (October 10 [23], 1917) Bolshevik Opposition to the Insurrection: Statement by Zinoviev and Kamenev (October 11 [24], 1917) The Military-Revolutionary Committee Triggering the Uprising

a) Circular of the Military-Revolutionary Committee (October 24 [November 6], 1917) b) Minutes of the Bolshevik Central Committee (October 24 [November 6], 1917)

The October Revolution: Proclamation of the Military-Revolutionary Committee (October 25 [November 7], 1917) The Soviet Government: Decree on the Formation of a Workers' and Peasants' Government (October 26 [November 8], 1917) Bolshevik Revolutionary Legislation

a) Decree on the Land (October 26 [November 8], 1917) b) Decree on Suppression of Hostile Newspapers (October 27 [November 9], 1917) c) Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia (November 2 [15], 1917)

Coalition or One-Party Government

a) Resolution of the Central Committee on the Opposition (November 2 [15], 1917) b) Bolshevik Statements of Resignation (November 4 [17], 1917)

Industrial Democracy: Decree on Workers' Control (November 14 [27], 1917) The Secret Police: Decree on Establishment of the Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution (December 7 [20], 1917) The Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly: Lenin, Draft Decree on the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly (January 6 [19], 1918) Trotsky on the Red Army: Labor, Discipline, Order (March 27, 1918) Lenin on Economic Expediency: The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government (April, 1918) The Left Communists on a Proletarian Economic Policy: Theses on the Present Moment (April, 1918) One-Party Dictatorship: Decree on the Expulsion of the Right Socialist Parties from the Soviets (June 14, 1918) Red Terror: Lenin on the Kulaks (August 11, 1918) War Communism: Decree on Nationalization of Large-Scale Industry (June 28, 1918) Western Radicals on the Communists: Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution (1918) The Party Program of 1919 Centralization of the Communist Party: Resolution of the Eighth Party Congress, On the Organizational Question (March, 1919) The Civil War: Lenin, All Out for the Fight Against Denikin (July, 1919) Bukharin's Apology for War Communism: The Economics of the Transformation Period (1920) Trotsky on Terror and Militarization: Terrorism and Communism (1920) The "Democratic Centralists" in Opposition to Centralization: Osinsky, Minority Report on Building the Economy, Ninth Party Congress (March, 1920) Lenin on Revolutionary Purism: "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (April, 1920) The Reaction against Bureaucracy: Resolution of the Ninth Party Conference, On the Coming Tasks of Building the Party (September, 1920) The Communist Ideal in Family Life: Alexandra Kollontai, Communism and the Family (1920) The Trade Union Controversy and the Workers' Opposition: Kollontai, The Workers' Opposition (1921) The Kronstadt Revolt: What We Are Fighting For (March 8, 1921) Institution of the Monolithic Party

a) Resolution of the Tenth Party Congress, On Party Unity (March, 1921) b) Resolution of the Tenth Party Congress, On the Syndicalist and Anarchist Deviation in Our Party (March, 1921)

The New Economic Policy: Lenin, The Tax in Kind (April, 1921)

Chapter Three: Soviet Communism: The Era of Controversy, 1922-1929

Protests against the New Economic Policy

a) The Declaration of the Twenty-Two (February, 1922) b) Appeal of the "Workers' Truth" Group (1922)

Lenin's "Testament": Continuation of Notes (December 24, 1922) Lenin on Nationality Policy: On the Question of the Nationalities or of "Autonomization" (December 30-31, 1922) Lenin on the Prerequisites for Socialism: Our Revolution (January, 1923) Lenin on Administrative Reform: Better Fewer, But Better (March, 1923) Trotsky on Industrialization: Theses on Industry (March, 1923) Formation of the Trotskyist Opposition

a) Trotsky Protests Bureaucratization (October 8, 1923) b) Declaration of the Forty-Six (October 15, 1923)

The "New Course" Controversy of December, 1923: Trotsky, The New Course (December 8, 1923) The Condemnation of the Trotskyist Opposition: Resolution of the Thirteenth Party Conference, On the Results of the Controversy and on the Petty-Bourgeois Deviation in the Party (January, 1924) The Formation of the USSR: Constitution of the USSR (January, 1924) Stalin on Leninism and the Party: The Foundations of Leninism (April, 1924) Stalin on Socialism in One Country: The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists (December, 1924) Preobrazhensky on the Economics of Industrialization: The New Economy (1926) Soviet Cultural Policy-The Liberal Period: Resolution of the Central Committee, On the Policy of the Party in the Field of Literature (July 1, 1925) Soviet Educational Policy-The Revolutionary Period: Pinkevich, Outlines of Pedagogy (1927) The Zinoviev-Kamenev Opposition

a) Zinoviev on State Capitalism (December, 1925) b) Kamenev on Stalin (December, 1925)

The United Opposition: Declaration of the Thirteen (July, 1926) Bukharin on the Opposition: The Party and the Opposition Bloc (July, 1926) The Theoretical Debate on Socialism in One Country

a) Kamenev's Criticism of Stalin (November, 1926) b) Stalin's Reply to Kamenev (November, 1926)

Stalin on the Expulsion of the Left Opposition: Report of the Central Committee to the Fifteenth Party Congress (December, 1927) Stalin on the Grain Crisis: On the Grain Front (May, 1928) The Right Opposition

a) Bukharin on Peasant Policy (July 10, 1928) b) Bukharin on the Menace of Stalin (July 11, 1928)

Kuibyshev on Industrialization: The Economic Situation of the Soviet Union (September 19, 1928) Bukharin on Equilibrium: Notes of an Economist (September 30, 1928)

Chapter Four: The Transformation Under Stalin, 1929-1953

Stalin's Revolution: Stalin, The Right Deviation in the CPSU(B) (April, 1929) Disciplining the Intellectuals: Resolution of the Second All-Union Conference of Marxist-Leninist Scientific Research Institutions, On Contemporary Problems of the Philosophy of Marxism-Leninism (April, 1929) Rakovsky on Bureaucracy

a) Letter on the Causes of the Degeneration of the Party and Governmental Apparatus (August 2, 1928) b) Circular of the Bolshevik-Leninist Opposition (April, 1930)

Stalin on the Liquidation of the Kulaks: Problems of Agrarian Policy in the USSR (December, 1929) The Socialized Economy and Revolutionary Law: Pashukanis, The Soviet State and the Revolution in Law (1930) Stalin on the Ends and Means of Industrialization

a) The Tasks of Business Executives (February, 1931) b) New Conditions-New Tasks in Economic Construction (June, 1931)

Stalin on the Sanctity of Leninism: Some Questions Concerning the History of Bolshevism (1931) The New Educational Policy: Decision of the Central Committee on the Primary and Secondary School (September 5, 1931) The Famine of 1932-33

a) The Ukrainian Politburo on Grain Collections (November 27, 1932) b) The Kiev Regional Bureau on Famine Relief (February 22, 1933)

Stalin's Social Ideal: Report of the Central Committee to the Seventeenth Party Congress (January, 1934) The New History: Decree of the Council of People's Commissars and the Central Committee, On the Teaching of Civic History (May, 1934) The New Nationalism: For the Fatherland! (Pravda, June 9, 1934) Socialist Realism: Gorky, Soviet Literature (August, 1934) The New Family Ideal: Discussion of the Law on Abolition of Legal Abortion (Pravda, May 28 and June 9, 1936) The Kirov Affair: Letter of an Old Bolshevik (1936) Trotsky on the New Soviet Society: The Revolution Betrayed (1937) The Great Purge: Stalin, On Inadequacies of Party Work and Measures for Liquidating Trotskyist and Other Double-Dealers (March, 1927) The Gulag: Trotskyists at Vorkuta The Moscow Trials: The Case of the Anti-Soviet Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites (1938) The Purges and Torture: Stalin, Telegram of January 20, 1939) Stalin as a Philosopher: Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1938) Vyshinsky on the New Law: The Law of the Soviet State (1938) Stalin on the State and Intelligentsia: Report of the Central Committee to the Eighteenth Party Congress (March, 1939) The Second World War

a) Directive on Mobilization (June 29, 1941) b) Voznesensky, The Economy of the USSR during World War II (1947)

Stalin and the Orthodox Church: Statements of the Patriarchate of Moscow (September, 1943) Wartime Defections: The Vlasov Movement (1944) Stalin on the Great-Russians: Speech at Reception for Red Army Commanders (May 24, 1945) Stalin's Analysis of Victory: Pre-Election Speech of February 9, 1946 The Zhdanov Movement: Zhdanov, Report to the Union of Soviet Writers (August, 1946) Party Control of Science-Genetics: Resolution of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, On the Question of the Status and Problems of Biological Science (August 26, 1948) The Campaign against "Cosmopolitanism": Voprosy Istorii on the Tasks of Soviet Historians (July, 1949) Stalin on Language and Society: Marxism and Linguistics (1950) The Limits of Stalinism-Malenkov on Imperfections in the Party: Report of the Central Committee to the Nineteenth Party Congress (October, 1952)

Chapter Five: The Interval of Reform, 1953-1964

The Death of Stalin and Collective Leadership: L. Slepov, Collectivity Is the Highest Principle of Party Leadership (April, 1953) The Purge of Beria

a) The Central Committee's Indictment (July 7, 1953) b) The Supreme Court's Verdict (December 24, 1953)

The Rise of Khrushchev: The Virgin Lands Program (February, 1954) The Fall of Malenkov: Malenkov's Statement of Resignation (February 8, 1955) "De-Stalinization": Khrushchev, Secret Speech at the Twentieth Party Congress (February, 1956) The "Thaw" in Cultural Life: Voprosy Filosofii on the Theater, (October, 1956) The "Anti-Party Group": Resolution of the Central Committee (June 29, 1957) The Promise of a Communist Future: Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (November, 1961) "Harebrained Schemes"-Khrushchev's Division of the Party Apparatus: Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU, On the Development of the USSR Economy and Reorganization of Party Guidance of the National Economy (November 23, 1962) The Fall of Khrushchev (October 6, 1964)

a) Suslov's Secret Speech b) Communique of the Central Committee (October 14, 1964)

Chapter Six: The "Era of Stagnation"

The Promise of the Brezhnev Era: Report of the Central Committee to the Twenty-Third Party Congress (March, 1966) The End of the Thaw-The Sinyavsky-Daniel Trial: D. Yeremin, "Turncoats" (January, 1966) The Attempt at Economic Reform

a) Liberman's Proposal (September, 1962) b) The 1965 Reform (1967)

Currents of Dissent

a) Liberal Dissent-Sakharov b) Conservative Dissent-Solzhenitsyn c) Marxist Dissent-Medvedev d) Suppression of Dissent-Andropov (November 15, 1976)

Soviet Consumerism: Kosygin, Report on the Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Party Congress for the Five-Year Plan, 1971-1975 (April, 1971) The Scientific-Technical Revolution: Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Party Congress on the Five-Year Plan (April 1971) Soviet Jews and the Emigration Issue

a) Samizdat on Discrimination and Assimilation b) The Emigration Tax

Brezhnev's Constitution: Brezhnev, Report on the Draft Constitution (June, 1977) The Theory of "Developed Socialism": Brezhnev, A Historic Stage on the Road to Communism (1977) Population and the Birthrate: D. Valentei and A. Kvasha, Population Problems and Demographic Policy (1981) The Limits of Centralism: Trapeznikov, Management and Scientific and Technical Progress (May, 1982) The Impasse in Agriculture: V. Miloserdov, New Stage in the Management of the Agro-Industrial Complex (August, 1982) Absorption of the National Minorities: "We are the Soviet People" (1982) The Andropov Succession

a) Andropov on the Economy b) Andropov on Marx and the Laws of Socialism

The Gathering Crisis: The "Novosibirsk Report" (August, 1983) The Chernenko Interlude: Chernenko's Speech to the Central Committee (February, 1984)

Chapter Seven: Perestroika and the End of Communism, 1985-1991

Gorbachev and Reform

a) Restructuring-Gorbachev's Speech to the Central Committee (April, 1985) b) Glasnost-Gorbachev and the Writers (June, 1986) c) Challenging the Party-Gorbachev at the Central Committee, January 1987 d) Reopening the Past-Gorbachev's Anniversary Speech (November, 1987)

Conservative Reaction: The Andreyeva Letter (March 13, 1988) Democratization

a) The September Revolution (1988) b) The Congress of People's Deputies (May, 1989) c) "Democratic Platform" (January, 1990) d) The Presidency and the End of the Communist Monopoly (March, 1990) e) Yeltsin and the Russian Republic

Marxism Rejected: Tsipko, "The Roots of Stalinism" (1988-89) Economic Crisis: The "500 Days" Plan (August, 1990) Cracks in the Union

a) Declarations of Sovereignty (March-June, 1990) b) The Union Treaty (March, 1991)

The Communist Party of the Russian Republic (June, 1990) The Last Party Program (July, 1991) The August Putsch (1991)

a) The Committee on the State of Emergency b) Yeltsin's Defiance c) Gorbachev's Return to Power d) Gorbachev's Resignation as General Secretary e) Suppression of the CPSU

The End of the Soviet Union (December, 1991)

a) The Commonwealth of Independent States b) Gorbachev's Resignation as President

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