دانلود کتاب The Bolshevik revolution, 1917-1918;: Documents and materials,

THE MATERIALS of this book tell the story of how the Bolsheviks seIzed the power 111 RussIa and kept It durIng the first SIX months of their rule. The story is told in the language of decrees, manifestos, and other public documents, in the words of par- ticipants and observers, and in the reports of the contemporary press. This volume follows chronologically the Documents of Russian Hitory, 1914-1917, published by the late Professor Frank A. Golder, and con- stitutes a part of a collection of materials on the Russian Revolution planned by him and made possible through his initiative. It has been necessary to revise his original plan, but in carrying out this revision, I have attempted to reach the objectives which Mr. Golder had in mind. If, therefore, this and the other volumes now in preparation contribute to the knowledge and understanding of one of the great historical move- ments of this age, the credit belongs to him. While this volume has been in preparation materials have been selected and translated which relate to civil war, intervention, and war communism in European Russia; the revolution, civil war, and intervention in Siberia and the Russian Far East; the origins of the Third International; the revolution and the Conununist regime in Hungary. These volumes are being prepared for the press along with certain memoirs and monographs dealing ...