Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution

Herausgeber: Chretien, Todd

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Produktbeschreibung

The Russian Revolution turned the world upside down. This reader tells the story of what happened with riveting eyewitness accounts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781608468614
• ISBN-10: 1608468615
• Artikelnr.: 47744430

Autorenporträt

Todd Chretien is a member of the International Socialist Organization, a frequent contributor to Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review, and editor of Haymarket Books’ edition of State and Revolution by V.I. Lenin (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Todd Chretien Acknowledgements A note on text and sources
I. Causes and meaning of the Russian Revolution
1. From the Preface to The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon
Trotsky 2. From The Fundamental Significance of the Russian Revolution by
Rosa Luxemburg 4. Five Days, scenes from the February Revolution by Leon
Trotsky
II. The February Revolution
3. The storm bursts by Claude Anet 4. Scene from Five Days by Leon Trotsky
III. A springtime of dual power
5. Political parties in Russia and the tasks of the proletariat by V.I.
Lenin 6. The Provisional Government prevaricates by Claude Anet 7. Lenin
returns to Russia by Fyodor Raskolnikov and Claude Anet 8. April Theses:
the tasks of the proletariat in the present revolution by V.I. Lenin 9.
Tsereteli's April Anti-Theses by Claude Anet 10. Kerensky's first visit to
the Army by Alexander Kerensky 11. June 18 Soviet demonstration and the
rise of the Bolsheviks by N.N. Sukhanov 12. Bolsheviks on Battleships by
Fyodor Raskolnikov
IV. The July Days and the Kornilov counterrevolution
13. The July Days by Leon Trotsky 14. The Kornilov Coup by Alexander
Kerensky 15. Fight Kornilov, but don't support Kerensky by V.I. Lenin 16.
Use Kerensky as a gun-rest to shoot at Kornilov by Leon Trotsky 17. A
peaceful road to All Power to the Soviets? by V.I. Lenin 18. Overview of
situation in September of 1917 by Morgan Philips Price
V. Debating insurrection
19. Provisional Government and Soviet by Arthur Ransome 20. Marxism and
insurrection by V.I. Lenin 21. Bolsheviks vote on insurrection by N.N.
Sukhanov and Bolshevik Central Committee 22. Preparing October by Albert
Rhys Williams
VI. The October Revolution
23. Smolny and the Winter Palace by Louise Bryant 24. Women fighters in the
October Revolution by Alexandra Kollantai 25. The Soviets take power by
John Reed
26. The intelligenstia desert by Albert Rhys Williams 27. Mensheviks walk
out and split by N.N. Sukhanov 28. The October Days by Nadezdha Krupskaya
29. The Congress of the Soviet Dictatorship by Leon Trotksy VII. Workers
Power 30. Kerensky is coming! by John Reed 31. The fall of the Constituent
Assembly by Isaac Nachman Steinmberg 32. Radek at Brest-Litovsk by William
Hard and Col. Ray Robins
33. The Far Eastern Soviet in Siberia by Gertrude M. Tobinson
34. The red convicts of Cherm by Albert Rhys Williams 35. A rural district
under the Bolsheviks by John Rickman 36. Cooperatives and life in Moscow by
Anonymous 37. Art Under the Bolsheviks by Floyd Dell 38. Religion under the
Bolsheviks by Anonymous 39. The origins of workers control in Russia by
John Reed 40. Are Soviet Women Nationalized? by Louise Bryan 41. Ministry
of Social Welfare by Louise Bryant 42. The First Woman Commissar by
Alexandra Kollantai 43. Women Workers and Soviet Russia by Inessa Armand
VIII. Characters in the Russian Revolution
44. Profiles by Louise Bryant 45. Sketches by Anatoly Lunacharsky
IX. Bolsheviks in America
46. The day of the people has arrived by Eugene V. Debs 47. Lenin's letter
to American workers by V.I. Lenin 48. Bolshevism in America by John Reed
49. 15,000 Bolshevist sympathizers in Madison Square Garden by the New York
Call
50. Greetings to Russian workers by Seattle Central Labor Council 51. Bread
and roses in Russia and the United States by Rose Pastor Stokes 52. Address
to the Jury in the Second Masses Trial by Max Eastman 53. On the
anniversary of Revolution by Max Eastman 54. Soviets and Racist Hypocrisy
in America by A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen 55. A New Crowd -A New
Negro by A. Philip Randolph 56. Bolshevism and the "rising tide of color"
by Cyril Briggs
X. By way of an assessment
57. Retrospective on the Russian Revolution by Albert Rhys Willams
Chronology Glossary Further reading