A Documentary History of Communism

The evolution of the communist mind in Russia. Part 1 Leninism and the Bolshevik Party, to 1917: Lenin as a Marxist - what the Friends of the People are and how they fight the Social-Democrats (1894) the foundation of the Russian Marxist Party - manifesto of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (1898) Lenin's theory of the Party - what is to be done? (1902) Lenin on the Party split - one step forward, two steps back (May, 1904) Marxist reactions to Lenin - Rosa Luxembourg - Leninism or Marxism (1904) organization of the Bolshevik faction - resolution of the twenty-two (August, 1904) Lenin on the of 1905 - two tactics of social-democracy in the Democratic (July, 1905) Trotsky on Permanent Revolution - results and prospects (1906) Lenin on Democratic Centralism - freedom of criticism and unity of action (June, 1906) Bogdanov's philosophical revision of Marxism - empiriomonism (1905-6) Lenin's philosophical orthodoxy - materialism and empiriocriticism (1908) the 1909 purge of the Bolshevik left Wing - communique on the conference, resolution on Otzovism and ultimatism the ultra-Left on Lenin's compromises - declarations of the Forward group (1910) - Bogdanov, Letter to All Comrades, Letter to Our Bolshevik Comrades Lenin on national self-determination - the right of Nations to self-determination (1914 Lenin on the uneven prospects of revolution - the United States of Europe slogan (August, 1915) Bukharin on the Imperialist state - on the theory of the Imperialist state (1916). Part 2 The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1921: Lenin's return to Russia - on the tasks of the proletariat in the present (April 7 [22],1917) Lenin on the Soviets - on the dual power (April 9 [22],1917) Lenin's vision of the revolutionary state - the state and revolution (August-September, 1917) Lenin's call for an uprising - Marxism and insurrection (September 13-14 [26-27],1917) the declaration of revolutionary intent - Trotsky - declaration of the Bolshevik fraction (October 7 [20],1917) the decision to seize power - resolution of the central committee, on the armed uprising (October 10 [23],1917) Bolshevik opposition to the insurrection - statement by Zinoviev and Kamenev (October 11 [24],1917) the military-revolutionary committee triggering the uprising - circular of the military-revolutionary committee (October 24[November 6],1917), minutes of the Bolshevik central committee (October 24 [November 6],1917) (part contents).