Index of Documents

This page provides links to all the sources on Russian history translated specially for this site. So far as we know, this is the only place where they are available in English. This list should expand considerably during the course of the 2002-2003 academic year, so please come back at intervals to see what is new.

1904

The Socialist-Revolutionaries' Assassination of Plehve

1906

Black Hundreds' election address

1914

"The mires of Kirsanov" - report on cleanliness in one small Russian town

1917

Appeal by Nikon, Bishop of Eniseysk and Krasnoyarsk, for support for the new authorities, 3/16 March 1917

Appeal from various parties in the internationalist camp, 3 - 4 November 1917

B V Avilov's speech at the 2nd All-Russia Congress of Soviets, 26 October/8 November 1917

Black-Hundred monarchist declares for the revolution, 4/17 March 1917

V Bazarov - What is needed for socialism? Polemic against Bolshevik rule, December 1917

Mustafa Chokaev - The National Movement in Central Asia (memoir of post-October events, written 1926)

Mustafa Chokaev on October 1917 and Turkestan

Documents from John Reed's Ten Days That Shook The World (collection)

RSDRP Mezhrayonka leaflet for International Women's Day, 1917

Petrograd Okhranka report on disturbances in the capital, 26 February 1917

Rafail Grigor'ev - The Disintegration of the Minority (analysis of the collapse of Menshevism, September/October 1917)

Socialist-Revolutionary-Internationalists' justification of the July demonstrations in Petrograd

Socialist Revolutionary appeal for opposition to the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, 26 October 1917

Socialist Revolutionary editorial on The Soviets and the Constituent Assembly, 6 October 1917

1918

Appeal of the Council of People's Commissars on the impending famine, May 1918

Appeal of the Russian Workers' and Peasants' Soviet Government to the toiling masses of France, Britain, America, Italy and Japan

Constitution of the Ufa Directory - the Provisional All-Russian Government, September-November 1918

Yu. O. Martov - Down with the Death Penalty!

1919

G V Chicherin - Two years of Soviet Russia's foreign policy

Communist International Executive Committee pamphlet: "Capitalist England - Socialist Russia"

RSDRP draft resolution on economic policy for VII Congress of Soviets, December 1919

Theses of the Right Mensheviks for the RSDRP conference, August 1919

To all! Appeal of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, July 1919

1920

Antonov rebellion, Tambov province: Programme of the insurgent Union of Toiling Peasants

Fedor Dan on British Workers' Delegation to Russia, May 1920

Ya. Lachugin, sailor: Letter to Lenin on popular mood in Shuya, Ivanovo-Vosnesensk province, April 1920

Privileged rations at the end of 1920 - resolution of Sovnarkom

1921

The Foundation of Gosplan, the State Planning Commission

1922

Nikolai Bukharin on the right of proletarian states to "red intervention"

1925

Nikolai Bukharin - "Enrich yourselves" - part of speech "On the New Economic Policy and our Tasks"

1927

Letter of complaint from peasant Ivan Khomich concerning peasants' conditions

"On the results of the last 10 years and the prospects for the USSR's economic construction" - Resolution of the USSR Central Executive Committee

1931

Rafail Abramovich: On the Menshevik Trial in Moscow

1943

Ukrainian Insurgent Army - What is the UIA fighting for?

Lt.-Gen. A A Vlasov - Why have I taken up the struggle against Bolshevism?

1962

Procurator-General N Trubin's report on the uprising in Novocherkassk