The Russian Revolution and Its Global Impact

Preface; Chronology; Glossary; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Russia in Revolu-tion & Civil War; Chapter 2: The Bolsheviks Engage the World; Chapter 3: The Russian Revolution & the Power of Communism Epilogue Documents. Section 1 -- Russia's Revolutions: From the Collapse of the Monarchy to the Civil War; Konstantin Pobedonoststev Blasts Parliamentarism, the Free Press, & Modern Education; V I Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916; Soldiers Write About the War, 1915-16; Order Number One, March 1, 1917; An American in Petrograd, Spring 1917; Polish Independence & the Russian Revolution, March--April, 1917; Lenin Calls for a Deepening of the Revolution, April 4, 1917; General Session of the Petrograd Soviet, September 11, 1917; Declaration of the Rights of the Working & Exploited People, January 1918; Mustafa Chokaev, Reminiscences of 1917-18; Aleksandra Kollontai, "Soon!" (in 48 Years' Time), 1919; Nikolai Bukharin & Evgenii Preobrazhenskii, ABC of Communism; The Fate of Kiev, 1918; The Russian "Internationale," 1902-1944; Appeal of Rebel Leaders to the Peasant Masses, Late July/Early August 1920. Section 2: The Bolsheviks Engage the World -- The Bolsheviks Take Russia Out of World War I, January--March 1918; Soviet Protest against Allied Intervention, June 27, 1918; V I Lenin, "A Letter to American Workingmen", August 20, 1918; Pitfalls of Intervention, 1918-20; Bolshevik Anticipation of a Revolutionary Wave in 1919; Report of the Chief of the International Relations Section of the Comintern, March 1, 1921; Toward World Revolution, July 3, 1921; The Treaty of Rapallo, April 16, 1922; J Stalin, "The Political Tasks of the University of the Toiling Peoples of the East," 1925; Bolshevik In-fluence in China, 1920s; Fighting over the Torch of the Revolution: Trotsky versus Stalin. Section 3 -- The Russian Revolution & the Power of Communism; John Reed on the Revolution & Socialism, 1919; "Russia Did It," 1919; Bela Kun, "Discipline & Centralized Leadership," 1923; Otto Ruhle, "Moscow & Us," 1920; French Writer Romain Rolland Responds to a Call to Join the Revolutionary Cause, February 2, 1922; Emma Goldman Rejects Bolshevik Policies, 1922-23; "The Russian Problem," 1919; Hitler's Lessons from the Rus-sian Revolution, 1923-26; "The Zinoviev Letter" Roils British Politics, 1924; Prime Minister Neville Chamber-lain's unease about Soviet Russia, 1939; "A Bright & a Heartening Phenomenon in a Dark & Dismal World," 1933-1936; Josiah Gumede, "The New Jerusalem," 1927; W E B Du Bois Discovers Soviet Russia (ca. 1928); Jose Carlos Mariategui Welcomes World Revolution; Dr Jose Lanauze Rolon's Radio Address in Puerto Rico Extolls the Russian Revolution, 1936; Mao Zedong's Retrospective of the Revolutionary Struggle, 1949; Select Bibliography.