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| Introduction: Back to the Future | |
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| Revolution and Civil War | |
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| The Revolution of 1917 | |
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| Essays | |
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| ""Toward a Social History of the October Revolution"" | |
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| ""Antibourgeois Propaganda and Anti-'Burzhui' Consciousness in 1917"" | |
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| Documents | |
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| Order No. 1. | |
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| Statement in the Soviet of Worker's Deputies, March 2, 1917 | |
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| Iraklii Tsereteli's Speech on Returning from Siberian Exile, March 1917 | |
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| ""The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution ('April Theses')"" | |
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| Tsereteli and Lenin's Exchange of Words During the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, June 3-4, 1917 | |
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| ""Report of the Commissar of the Novoaleksandrovsk Uezd, Kovno Guberniia,"" June 14, 1917 | |
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| ""Letter to Central Committee Members,"" October 24, (November 6), 1917 | |
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| Civil War, Socialism, and Nationalism | |
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| Essays | |
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| ""'Information Is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work': Bolshevik Surveillance in Its Pan-European Context"" | |
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| Documents | |
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| First Decrees of the New Soviet Government | |
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| The Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly | |
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| ""The Cheka is Cheated"" | |
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| Iulii Martov's Letter to A. N. Stein, June 16, 1918 | |
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| Lenin's Letter to v. V. Kuraev, E. B. Bosh, A. E. Minkin, August 11, 1918 | |
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| ""Report on the Red Army"" to the First Congress of the Communist International, March 2, 1919 | |
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| Retreat and Rebuilding | |
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| Politics, Society, and Culture in the 1920s | |
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| Essays | |
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| ""An Affirmative-Action Empire: The Emergence of the Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1919-1923"" | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Workers' Opposition, 1921 | |
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| Resolution of the Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party, ""On Party Unity"" and ""On the Syndicalist and Anarchist Deviation in Our Party,"" March 1921 | |
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| Lenin's Letter to Stalin, July 17, 1922 | |
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| ""Letter to Congress"" (December 23-31, 1922) [Lenin's ""Testament""] | |
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| Bukharin and Dzerzhinskii Disagree About the Nature of Revolutionary Government, December 1924 | |
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| ""The October Rvolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists,"" December 17, 1924 | |
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| ""Speech to the Fourteenth Party Congress,"" December 1925 | |
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| The Code of Laws on Marriage and Divorce, the Family and Guardianship, November 19, 1926 | |
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| Kamenev-Burkharin Exchange, July 11, 1928 | |
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| Kliment Voroshilov's Letter to ""Sergo"" Orjonikidze, June 8, 1929 | |
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| Stalin's Letter to Molotov, Voroshilov, and Orjonikidze, September 30, 1929 | |
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| Lev Kopelev, from To Be Preserved Forever | |
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| Stalinism | |
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| The Stalin Revolution | |
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| Essays | |
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| ""The Bolshevik Invention of Class: Marxist Theory and the Making of 'Class Consciousness' in Soviet Society"" | |
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| ""The Centre and the Periphery: Cultural and Social Geography in the Mass Culture of the 1930s"" | |
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| ""World Revolution or Russia,"" from The Great Retreat | |
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| ""The Big Deal"" | |
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| Documents | |
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| ""Dizzy with Success: Concerning Questions of the Collective Farm Movement,"" March 2, 1930 | |
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| ""The Last Grain Collections (1933)"" | |
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| ""New Conditions--New Tasks in Economic Construction,"" Stalin's Speech to a Conference of Economic Managers, June 23, 1931 | |
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| Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), ""On the Teaching of Civic History in the Schools of the USSR,"" May 16, 1934 | |
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| ""For the Fatherland!"" Editorial in Pravda, June 9, 1934 | |
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| Stalin's Letter to Kosior and Chubar in Kharkov, January 2, 1930 | |
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| ""AMay Night,"" excerpts from Hope Against Hope: A Memoir | |
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| Stalin to All Members of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Cummunist Party, March 31, 1937 | |
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| Stalin on the Arrests and Executions of Tukhachevskii, Iakir, Uborevich, and Others, June 11, 1937 | |
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| Beria to Stalin on Counter-revolutionary Organization in Ajaria, July 17, 1937 | |
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| Stalin to the Secretaries of Obkoms, Kraikoms, and Central Committees of the National Communist Parties, August 3, 1937 | |
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| ""Is Pashchitskii Present?"" | |
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| Nikolai Bukharin's Letter to Stalin, December 10, 1937 | |
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| Mekhlis to Stalin and Ezhov, October 28, 1938 | |
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| Conference of Musicians at the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party, January 1948 | |
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| Report to Stalin on Dissolving Jewish Writers' Associations and Stalin's Decision (February 8, 1949) | |
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| Nikita Khrushchev's Apology to Stalin, March 6, 1951 | |
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| Dangers and Opportunities: The Comintern, World War, and Cold War | |
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| Essays | |
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| ""Popular Reactions in Moscow to the German Invasion of June 22, 1941"" | |
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| ""The Premises of Policy,"" from Stalin and the Bomb | |
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| Documents | |
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| ""Theses on the National and Colonial Questions"" (1920) | |
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| ""Theses on the Conditions for Admission"" to the Communist International (1920) | |
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| Stalin, ""On the Tasks of Workers in the Economy,"" excerpts from his speech to the First All-Union Conference of Workers of Socialist Industry, February 4, 1931 | |
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| Stalin's Interview with Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard Publications (1936) | |
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| The Nazi-Soviet Pact, August 23, 1939 | |
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| Memorandum from Lavreni Beria to Stalin, March 5, 1940 | |
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| Letter to Nikita Khrushchev from Aleksandr Shelepin, March 3, 1959 and Draft Resolution to Destroy the Documents Concerning the Katyn Massacre, March 3, 1959 | |
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| ""At Naval Headquarters"" | |
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| Report from Beria to Stalin, July 4, 1944 | |
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| Record of Conversations between Comrade I. V. Stalin and Chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong, December 16, 1949; January 22, 1950 | |
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| Reform and Stagnation | |
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| From Autocracy to Oligarchy | |
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| Essays | |
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| ""Irreconcilable Differences: Divorce and Conceptions of Private Life in the Khrushchev Era"" | |
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| Documents | |
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| from A Precocious Autobiography | |
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| ""Secret Speech"" to the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, February 25, 1956 | |
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| ""1956--A Memoir"" | |
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| Report of Vladimir Semichastnyi, chairman of the KGB, July 25, 1962 | |
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| Stagnation | |
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| Essays | |
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| ""The 'New Soviet Man' Turns Pessimist"" | |
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| ""The Little Deal: Brezhnev's Contribution to Acquisitive Socialism"" | |
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| Documents | |
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| ""Brezhnev and the End of the Thaw: Reflections on the Nature of Political Leadership"" | |
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| Report of Vladmir Semichastnyi to the Central Comittee on Armenian Nationalists, February 7, 1966 | |
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| ""Was the 1968 Prague Invasion Justified?"" | |
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| ""The Case of Boris Kochubiyevsky"" | |
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| Letter from Vladimir Vysotskii to Petr Dimichev, April 17, 1973 | |
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| Reform and Revolution | |
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| The Road to Revolution | |
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| Essays | |
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| ""Televorot: The Role of Television Coverage in Russia's August 1991 Coup"" | |
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| Documents | |
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| from Memoirs | |
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| Election of Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | |
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| ""I Cannot Give Up My Principles"" | |
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| The REhabilitation of Bukharin | |
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| Boris Yeltsin Resigns from the Communist Party at the Twenty-Eighth Congress of the CPSU (July 1990) | |
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| Boris Yeltsin Calls for Gorbachev's Resignation (February 1991) | |
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| The August Coup | |
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| End of the USSR: Formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States | |
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| ""Speech of Resignation,"" December 25, 1991 | |
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| The Second Russian Republic and the ""Near Abroad"" | |
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| Essays | |
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| ""Russia's Post-Communist Politics: Revolution or Continuity?"" | |
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| ""Elite Transformation in Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Transcaucasia, or What Happens When the Ruling Class Can't Rule?"" | |
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| Documents | |
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| ""After Events, On the Eve of Events,"" January 1992 | |
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| ""August 1991"" | |
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| Teltsin Dissolves Parliament, Calls Elections, September 21, 1993 and the Reply by Ruslan Khasbulatov | |
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| ""Russia and the Near Abroad"" | |
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| ""Appeal to the Citizens of Russia,"" December 11, 1994 | |
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| The Russian State Duma Nullifies the Breakup of the Soviet Union | |
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| Principles for Determining the Foundations of Relations between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic, August 31, 1996 | |
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| ""Address to the Russian People,"" December 31, 1999 | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Essays | |
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| ""Z"" [Martin Malia], ""To the Stalin Mausoleum"" | |
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| ""Causes of the Collapse of the USSR"" | |
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| ""What Russia Teaches Us Now: How Weak States Threaten Freedom"" | |
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