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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: V. I. Lenin's Life and Legacy | |
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| V. I. Lenin and the Founding of the Soviet State | |
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| The Russia of Lenin's Youth | |
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| Lenin as Revolutionary | |
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| World War I and the Russian Revolution | |
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| Bolshevik Rule and the New Soviet State | |
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| War Communism: Ideology or Pragmatism? | |
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| Lenin's Last Active Years: The New Economic Policy and Other Innovations | |
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| Lenin's Decline | |
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| Lenin's Legacy | |
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| The Documents | |
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| Lenin and the Bolshevik Seizure of Power, 1900-1917 | |
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| Lenin as a Theorist of Revolution | |
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| From The Urgent Tasks of Our Movement, December 1900 | |
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| From What Is to Be Done? 1902 | |
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| From The Party Organization and Party Literature, November 1905 | |
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| From Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916 | |
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| From The State and Revolution, 1917 | |
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| The Path to the Bolsheviks' Seizure of Power | |
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| From The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (April Theses), April 1917 | |
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| From Speech in Favor of the Resolution on the War, April 27 (May 10), 1917 | |
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| From Resolution on the National Question, May 1917 | |
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| From An Open Letter to the Delegates of the All-Russian Congress of Peasants' Deputies, May 7 (29), 1917 | |
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| From The Political Situation, July 10 (23), 1917 | |
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| From The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It, September 10-14 (September 23-27), 1917 | |
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| From One of the Fundamental Questions of the Revolution, September 27 (October 10), 1917 | |
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| The Monopolization of Power during the Civil War: 1917-1920 | |
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| Toward One-Party Power | |
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| From To Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants! October 25 (November 7), 1917 | |
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| From Resolution of the Central Committee of the RSDLP(B) on the Opposition within the Central Committee, November 2 (15), 1917 | |
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| Decree on the Arrest of the Leaders of the Civil War against the Revolution, November 28 (December 11), 1917 | |
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| From Draft Decree on the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, January 6 (19), 1918 | |
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| From Speech to Propagandists on Their Way to the Provinces, February 5, 1918 | |
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| Interview Granted to an Izvestia Correspondent in Connection with the Left Socialist-Revolutionary Revolt, July 8, 1918 | |
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| The Bolshevik Terror and the Stigmatization of Public Enemies | |
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| Draft Resolution on Freedom of the Press, November 4 (17), 1917 | |
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| Letter to G. I. Blagonravov and V. D. Bonch-Bruevich, December 8 (21), 1917 | |
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| Telegram to V. L. Paniushkin, June 15, 1918 | |
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| Letter to G. E. Zinoviev, June 26, 1918 | |
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| From Report of the Council of People's Commissars on the Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets, July 5, 1918 | |
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| Telegram to the Penza Gubernia Executive Committee of the Soviets, August 19, 1918 | |
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| From Letter to Maxim Gorky, September 15, 1919 | |
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| Problems of War and World Revolution | |
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| The Socialist Fatherland Is in Danger! February 21, 1918 | |
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| V. I. Lenin and others, From Resolution on War and Peace, March 8, 1918 | |
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| From Letter to the Workers and Peasants apropos of the Victory over Kolchak, August 24, 1919 | |
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| From Letter to American Workers, August 20, 1918 | |
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| From Speech at the Opening Session of the Congress, March 2, 1919 | |
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| From "Left-Wing" Communism-an Infantile Disorder, April-May 1920 | |
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| From Report on the International Situation and the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International to the Second Congress of Comintern, July 19, 1920 | |
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| From Political Report to the Ninth All-Russian Conference of the RCP(B), September 20, 1920 | |
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| War Communism and the Invention of a Command Economy | |
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| From The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government, March-April 1918 (published in Pravda on April 28, 1918) | |
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| From Organization of Food Detachments, June 27, 1918 | |
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| From Speech to the First All-Russian Congress of Land Departments, Poor Peasants' Committees, and Communes, December 11, 1918 | |
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| From Political Report of the Central Committee to the Eighth All-Russian Conference of the RCP(B), December 2, 1919 | |
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| Threats to the Revolution: The Development of the New Economic Policy | |
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| Disputes and Opposition in the Party, 1920-1921 | |
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| From The Party Crisis, January 21 (February 3), 1921 | |
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| Summary of Lenin's Remarks at the Conference of the Delegates to the Tenth Congress of the RCP(B) - Supporters of the Platform of Ten, March 13, 1921 | |
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| From Preliminary Draft Resolution of the Tenth Congress of the RCP on Party Unity, March 1921 | |
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| Anti-Bolshevik Popular Uprisings and the Shift in Policy | |
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| From Report on the Political Work of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on Tenth Congress of the RCP(B), March 8, 1921 | |
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| Rough Draft of Theses Concerning the Peasants, February 8, 1921 | |
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| Lenin's Objective in the New Economic Policy | |
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| From Report on the Substitution of a Tax in Kind for the Surplus Grain Appropriation System, March 15, 1921 | |
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| Draft Resolution on the Question of the New Economic Policy for the Tenth Conference of the RCP(B), May 1921 | |
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| V. I. Lenin and V. M. Molotov, Telegram to All Provincial and Regional Party Committees of the RCP(B), July 30, 1921 | |
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| From The Political Report of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) to the Eleventh Congress of the RCP(B), March 27, 1922 | |
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| Economic Policy under the NEP | |
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| From Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution: Report to the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, November 13, 1922 | |
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| Letter to Maxim Gorky, December 6, 1921 | |
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| The Institutionalization of a One-Party System | |
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| From We Have Paid Too Much, April 9, 1922 | |
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| Letter to I. V. Stalin, July 17, 1922 | |
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| Toward a Single Spiritual and Cultural System | |
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| Letter to A. V. Lunacharsky, May 6, 1921 | |
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| Letter to V. M. Molotov for the Politburo of the CC of RCP(B), January 12, 1922 | |
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| From The Tasks of the Youth Leagues, October 2, 1920 | |
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| From Letter to V. M. Molotov for the Members of the CC of RCP(B), March 19, 1922 | |
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| The Sick Leader: De Facto Removal from Power | |
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| Letter to Stalin for Politburo of RCP(B) CC, June 15, 1922 | |
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| From Letter to the Congress: Continuation of the Notes, December 24, 1922 | |
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| Letter to I. V. Stalin, March 5, 1923 | |
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| Lenin's Last Thoughts | |
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| From On Co-operation, January 4 and 6, 1923 | |
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| From The Question of Nationalities or "Autonomization," December 30, 1922 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| A Chronology of V. I. Lenin's Life (1870-1924) | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |